The UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Human rights are definitely a good idea & concept to have in the world, to eliminate poverty and inequality. Unfortunately, they are not always referred to and are often ignored. Most countries in the world did sign the pact to obey the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but not all and not all of the countries that agreed to go by them have been doing so. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is basically a list of universal laws and rules that every country must follow, in order to maintain peace and for every global citizen to be equal.

If not for The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the world's poverty levels would probably be higher, there is a chance that inequality would be a more socially acceptable concept and more governments could (still) be monopolies and dictatorships.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has seemingly been one of the things that has improved life quality for people (especially poor people) in the past 60 or so years. Since they were brought into action, not long after World War II, there haven't been any wars taken place in first world countries, people have been able to fight for their rights and win, like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela and Dictatorships have stepped down. Now, These things all could have happened without the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but in my opinion, it certainly helped.

Of course, Human Rights do get breached very frequently, especially in 3rd world countries. The protests in Egypt, Libya and other Middle Eastern countries have definitely shown how little progress has been made in some places. The Egyptian protesters had been rallying against their power mongering dictator leader for almost a month before he gave in, which sparked hope for people in other parts of the world who are in a similar situation. Hundreds of Egyptian protesters died, just because they wanted to know what it was really like to have these "Universal Human Rights" that they had heard so much about.

I think there are quite a few people and groups who are responsible for the lack of Human Rights in some countries. The UN, and its representatives could possibly be doing a better job of making sure people all over the world are getting treated the same; fairly. But, of course, it's not just the UN's fault that leaders of countries are not being true to the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Each country's leader and UN representative should be making sure that they're doing the right thing in order to make their country a better place to live in, and to give their country a better name. I believe that the UN should be punishing leaders and counties in some way for not following the Declaration to prevent these breaches from occurring in the first place.


-Expert Blogger Darcy Power