The Non Governmental Organization that I am researching is Human Rights Watch. This organization is a non-profit entity that does not take any government funding or any funding from any private source that will comprise its goal as an independent defender or the rights of the individual world wide.
The Human Rights Watch mission, as it's mission statement is available on their website, is to investigate human rights violations, disseminate information regarding these violations through reports and lobbying efforts, and to encourage the powers that be to respect the individual's inalienable human rights and to seek redress on those that fail to comply.1 http://www.hrw.org/about
Originally Human Rights Watch was called Helsinki Watch. This organization was created to monitor human rights violations in the Eastern Block countries after the Helsinki Agreement was finalized in 1975. Other watch committees were later created to monitor other regions of the world. In 1988 these watch committees were consolidated into the current organization, Human Rights Watch.
Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on Human Rights violations throughout the world, it can be broken into regions: Africa Watch, Americas Watch, Asia Watch, and Middle East and North Africa Division. As a bibliographical note indicates in the online Archival Collections at Columbia University, "Issues raised by HRW include social and gender discrimination, torture, military use of children, political corruption, and abuses in criminal justice systems, and violations of humanitarian and international law."2
Human Rights Watch is probably most famous for leading the fight in banning anti-personnel mines. It is co-chair of the International Campaign to Ban Landmi...
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...Watch records: Record Group 1: Helsinki Watch, 1952-2003 (Bulk, 1978-1994). (n.d.) Columbia University, Archival Collections. Retrieved on April 30, 2014, from http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_6062290/
Human Rights Watch records: Record Group 1: Helsinki Watch, 1952-2003 (Bulk, 1978-1994). (n.d.) Columbia University, Archival Collections. Retrieved on April 30, 2014, from http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_6062290/ website. (n.d.) Human Rights Watch. Retrieved on April 30, 2014, from from http://www.hrw.org/about
Landmine Monitor 2012, pg. 12. (November, 2012). Retrieved from http://www.the-monitor.org/index.php/publications/display?url=lm/2012/
Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast. (October 19, 2009). The New York Times. Retrieved on April 30, 2014, from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/opinion/20bernstein.html
How much more do we need to do before we start responding to these legacies? Works Cited United Human Rights Council. United Human Rights Council. N.p., n.d. Web. The Web.
There have been many humanitarians that strive to help countries suffering with human right abuses. People think that the help from IGOs and NGOs will be enough to stop human rights violations. However, it hasn’t been effective. Every day, more and more human rights violations happen. The problem is escalating. People, including children, are still being forced to work to death, innocent civilians are still suffering the consequences of war, and families are struggling to stay firm together. Despite the efforts from the people, IGOs, and NGOs, In the year 2100, human rights abuse will not end.
Schattuck, John. “Overview of Human Right Practices, 1995,” Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. March 1996: n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 10 Oct 2013.
...2009): 8-9. United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review. Web. 8 Apr. 2014. .
The current century has witnessed immense improvement and re-conceptualization of standards and sovereignty of human rights in Latin America. With the endemic repression and violations of human rights throughout Latin American in the mid to late 20th century, the International human rights regime, an amalgam of international and intergovernmental organizations and bodies, expanded exponentially. By conducting investigations within certain countries, or simply monitoring overt violations of human rights, the international human rights regime stimulated global awareness of violations of human rights in different countries; soon to follow was change in domestic policy in response to international policy. This also led to increased opposition by domestic NGOs against repressive governments or dictatorships largely responsible for human rights violations. Just as well, a number of organizations and groups aided domestic non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in their growing efforts to establish judicial practices that better protected human rights. Declarations, conventions, and charters, established a number of values that served as the credo for the organizations that constituted the international human rights regime. Over time, more and more countries were pressured and held accountable for these values, which developed into universal standards for human rights practices. Thus the International Human right regime and the pressure they imposed upon governments ultimately resulted in widespread positive changes in human rights.
AI does not have an administrative authority over jurisdictions to bring in change in the status of human rights and to end its grave violations, but it --- with the assistance of its diverse and global membership of ground workforce, researchers, and activists --- strives towards getting the abuses of human rights heard far and wide through campaigning; lobbying governments and corporate world by reminding them of their promises for respecting international human rights law i.e. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, for example (“WHO WE ARE”, 2015)--- ; spreading the statistics through local, national, and international media coverage, and reporting of rights-status in different
Antipersonnel landmines kill thousands of people every year. Antipersonnel landmines do not recognize a cease-fire; they continue killing or maiming for many years after the conflict is over. Antipersonnel landmines do not discriminate between soldiers or civilians. On the contrary, more and more they are being used in an indiscriminate way, terrorizing civilians and transforming agricultural fields into killing fields. In addition, de-mining is a very slow and very expensive process, and after a war most countries are not prepared to cope with the constant health care demands imposed by the number of injured by landmines. Finally, landmines make it very difficult for refugees to go back to their cities and villages. As response to the landmine problem, the international community has come up with a treaty to ban landmines. On March 1, 1999, the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty came into effect; so far 134 countries have signed the treaty. Unfortunately, the U. S. is not one of them.
45 Oona Hathaway, ‘Do Human Rights Treaties Make a Difference?’ (2003) 112 Yale Law Journal
Kelley, Elaine. "Northwest Groups Discuss Afghan, Iranian and Turkish Rights Violations." The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs XV.7 (1997): 63. ProQuest.Web. 9 Oct. 2013.
Introduction Human rights are fundamental rights and freedoms that all people are entitled to regardless of nationality, gender, national or ethnic origin, religion, language, or other status. And these human rights violations are in some countries like Central African Republic, Syria, USA, Ireland, and etcetera. One example is Syria, where the people afraid live here. Therefore, article 3 of the Universal Human Rights Act is violated in Syria. This essay seeks to consider the human rights violations in Syria.
Anonymous. I am a naysayer. The "World Report 2013" Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch, 2013. Web.
...y was first started it seemed almost as though it was a lost cause because of the lack of access to the appropriate officials, organisations, governments, and people to make it happen. After seven years of planning and working, with the help of global and domestic groups they were able to influence countries to change their policies towards landmines. In turn, those countries helped influence even more countries. Rutherford (141) explained that much of the success was due to changing global perceptions and norms; they succeeded because they had power to control the ways that landmines were perceived.
Magno, A., (2001) Human Rights in Times of Conflict: Humanitarian Intervention. Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, 2 (5). [online] Available from: http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/resources/publications/dialogue/2_05/articles/883.html> [Accessed 2 March 2011] United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report (2000) Human Rights and Human Development (New York) p.19
The role that globalization plays in spreading and promoting human rights and democracy is a subject that is capable spurring great debate. Human rights are to be seen as the standards that gives any human walking the earth regardless of any differences equal privileges. The United Nations goes a step further and defines human rights as,
In some countries, activists of worker’s rights or human’s rights do not exist and most of the times government officials are the first people to violate the rights of workers whether in public or private sectors. According to Global Issues, ...