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Human Rights Day
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enforcing human rights is the challenge
10/17/09
by: charlal
THE Universal Declaration Rights is the moral campus for governments and individuals alike with regards to upholding human rights. If religiously followed the world would become a better place, man would co-exist in peace ,dignity and prosperity.However,despite it's the virtues of the UDHR, the world since 2001 has seem an upsurge in torture,terrorism and most excessive repression of human rights in Palestine and Zimbabwe.
There be more international mechanisms which coerce governments as the custodians of human rights to live up to their mandate.without input from the state as with the case in Zimbabwe where the state is promoting the abuse of human rights through enforced disappearances and the state's unwillingness to prosecute perpetrators of the june 27 violence.
From such a standpoint the international community should find befitting ways to whip governments which disregard the significance of human rights in their political discourse.That is when the gap between principle and implementation will lead to respect for human rights.
CHARLES SAKI. ZIMBABWE 2009
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