what are the main problems with the concept of universal human rights ?
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1/  One man's right to excercise his right can be the cause of infringement on another's rights. \n\n2/  It is diffcult to enforce universal rights and police violations since each state is independent and has its own laws. Also, not all states would be willing to ratify a unversal law of human rights.
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Sounds like every problem of every country,and there are no answers without greed and malaise being removed .why bother with the whole problem when even a small portion cannot be made better.world law on matters of decency is a option,but years away.
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A clear distinction must be made between human rights and civil rights. \n\nHuman rights are inherent and inalienable, and are defined by universal documents (these rights, however, are often mainly given lip service, particularly by dictatorial regimes).\n\nCivil rights are those rights citizens of a nation have as a matter of constitutional guarantee. They cannot be violated by the authorities, and depending on the particular right, by other people. Civil rights can be abridged or even abrogated following conviction of a crime, however. \n\nNations beset with instability grant fewer civil rights to its citizens than stable, established democracies such as  in the US or UK.
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There are several. Here's a list of a few:\n1. Invasion of privacy. Often people claim that doing such invades their privacy and is unconstitutional.\n2. Freedom of Religion. Some religions allow the husband to beat the wife, and even set forth guidelines for how and when.\n3. Women's Fears. Women often recant. They claim that they were wrong and drop charges, etc. Usually they do so out of fear.\n4. Restraining Orders are WORTHLESS. It is only a piece of paper and the punishment for breaking one is close to nothing. Unfortunately the victim often ends up debilitated or dead.\n5. People have not passed effective legislation to punish violence.\n6. Legal Precedent. Judges must interpret the laws and consider legal precedent. A "radical" decision is easily contested by arguing precedent.\n\nThese are only a few problems. Many many more exist.
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-   Sin.  It's the #1 cause of mankind's problems.\n-   Greed and Pride (leads to much of the following)\n-   Crime (rape, theft, murder, child pornography, kidnapping, etc.)\n-   Crimes against humanity (torture, experimentation, genocide)\n-   Unwillingness to get involved (turning a blind eye when abuse  and injustices occur)\n-   Abuse (spousal and child, as well as other types)\n-   Politics (what a joke) \n-   Religion (killing, rather than loving, in the name of God)\n-   Environmental issues (pollution, global warming, poor use of natural resources, deforestation, etc.)\n-   Natural disasters (hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, flood, drought, etc.)\n-   Economies (disparate global economies, poverty vs wealth)\n-   Starvation (especially in 3rd world countries)\n-   Disease (especially, but not limited to, 3rd world countries)\n-   Education (lack of edu. or poor edu. leads to poverty and a class of people who cannot defend or fend for themselves)\n-   Waste (indulgent over-consumption, poor stewardship of what we already have)\n-   Covetousness (wanting what others have that you do not have)\n-   Love of wealth and power (people will stop at nothing to get what they want)\n-   Unfaithfulness (not just to spouses, but to families, communities, work, etc.)\n-   Selfishness (Lacking the ability to empathize...demanding your way.  Make no mistake, this is a mass problem as well as an individual one)\n-   War\n-   Terrorism\n-   Slavery (it still goes on today...it's just disguised as "cheap labor")\n-   Sex slave trade (the wholesale abuse of women and children around the world)\n-   Immorality\n-   Lack of responsibility\n-   Judicial systems (when money can buy a better defense...)\n-   Drugs\n-   Addiction\n-   Teen pregnancy\n-   Organized Crime\n-   Lies, lies, lies\n-   Entertainment/Media (feeding the world its version of beauty, truth, etc.)\n-   News Media (oh the inaccuracies! and all the trouble that causes)\n-   Cultural misunderstandings or insensitivity\n-   Hatred\n-   Bigotry\n-   Egocentrism\n-   Sexism\n-   Racism\n-   Unemployment\n-   Poverty\n-   Homelessness\n-   Social Security (and other issues that face the elderly)\n-   Rights vs Responsibility  (when your rights step on mine, where does responsibility come in?)\n-   Child abandonment (the making of orphans throughout the world)\n-   Technology (creating a world that is increasingly interactive with machines rather than other humans)\n-   Human Desensitization through Media (i.e. violent images, violent actions, adult themes, lack of consequences, etc.)\n\n\nOkay, I may add more to this later.  This is as many as I can think of at the moment.
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i think that everyone is entitled to their own views, and we in the UK have been kept in the dark about so many things, its unbelievable.Only recently has the world opened up to us, essentially because of globalisation and migration. Alot of the press on the television to do with politics and this sort of thing is mainly propaganda, eg when they mention things like the new anti-terror laws and such, without anything actually haveing taken place, it is to sway public opinion, its spin. i do not wish to live my life censored, and what is life if it is not free? do we really want to go back to a time when people give up their rights for personal safety?! I think that Human Rights is of utmost importance, because if you were stopped in the street and searched for being black or for wearing traditional muslim clothes, i'm sure you would be in favour of human rights. Or if you were shot at because you were suspected of being a terrorist. However, everything has its boundaries, and if you are under attack its only right that you fight back. sad but true. My opinion, from Birmingham UK.
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PEACE to the areas of the world in conflict.  \nCures for AIDS and CANCER will be available to EVERYONE regardless if they can afford it or not.\nHunger will not the the cause of death.\n\nNo more PREJUDICES against race, religion, sexual orientation in order for us to relate to one another on a human and personal level.  We don't need to be blinded by our differences but we have to respect each other for them.  If everyone was like us, it would be a boring world.\n\nNo more INJUSTICES.  The people who do crime are punished according and money will not BUY freedom.  Crimes against women and children will not be ignored.
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Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International. There is a section of complaints. That's the best that I can do.
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Probably all of them.\n\nBTW, why is it that there are people posting here who dont believe that the US breaches human rights law?\n\nwhy is that so hard to believe? i'm sure if you visited ANY prison in the US (not even including Guantanamo Bay), you would find cases of human rights abuse.
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Its just to attract votes from nationalistic people - a british bill of rights.  obviously its rubbish - we have to be signed up to the human rights bill to be a member of europe so any conflict would be immediately overridden.  a bad idea anyway - it would just lead to arguments over interpretation and be inflexible.
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Unfortunately the humans are victims of humans.\nOne human has acquired the responsibility to allow or not the rights to another.\nDefinition varies from place to place, citizen to citizen.\nThese are important to those who want their rights but does not matter for those who haves to respect these rights.
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they are not the "leaders of Human Rights",  there is no such thing as leadership of HR. Human Rights are universal, and every human deserves to enjoy it.\n\nA leading country in the world like the USA should give better examples of Human Rights preservation and respecting Geneva Conventions. It's just another good example of power abuse.
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I don't know if this fits in with the emphasis in your class, but this is my personal view...\n\nHistorically, when human rights were being defined women were not included.\n\nFor example: The US Constitution was written to protect and preserve the rights of citizens of the newly-formed United States. Women, however, were not believed to have all of the rights enshrined in that document and had to struggle to have their rights as citizens recognized.\n.\nAlthough any discussion of human rights includes women by definition, the overall umbrella of "human rights" is not always seen as addressing issues specific to the female gender. These issues include child-bearing, sexual abuse and oppressive cultural traditions/laws which prevent women from enjoying the "human rights" that men have.\n\nIn a nutshell, when someone says "women's rights" they are  talking about human rights that women do not have yet---or they are discussing something gender-specific.\n\nI hope this helps.
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The biggest issues were trade and defense, with the obligatory sprinklings of human rights...speech, religion, etc.
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It hasn't.\nHuman rights are a bit more basic, the big three are the right to life, the right to be free from slaveryand the right to be free from torture. \nCivil rights are things like the ability to earn the same wage as someone else doing the same job, other, more legal, governmental, or civil types of issues.
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1. Failure of ethical governance.\n2. Failing educational system.\n3. Declining moral climate.\n4. Economic considerations running people instead of people being the wise stewards of the economic system.\n5. Too much immigration without qualification.  Many now here do not at all believe in freedom of religion or other traditional American values; some even wish to overthrow or disable the nation.  Many of these are also engaged in lives of exploitation of the working populace and crimes.  The crimes run the gamut from violent to scams and frauds.  \n6. Limitless compensation for corporate executives.\n7. Increasing numbers of impoverished and street people, many of whom are not old and disabled; some of these now helping the drug and crime problems to grow further.\n8. Breakdown of the traditional family structure, the mainstay of all enduring nations.\n10. Misplaced priorities everywhere.  More could be said, but these are sufficient to constitute two steps backward for every one forward currently.\n\nOther nations are having much of the same, and it is still better here than most other places; but, we must ask: How much longer can we endure these ills?  Will enough people change to correct them?
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Poverty is the main problem. What follows is lack of education, utilities, medical care, food and all the other things we take for granted. It also opens the company up to dictators who, with a little money and power, can control the weakened population and keep them surpressed.\n\nThe Asian countries are great examples but Africa, Russia , Mexicon and Cuba also are models of what can happen when there are long histories of poverty and surpression. We have so much to protect and be thankful for in America.