Human Rights in America

Human Rights in America

So many times we have heard American officials blaming other countries for not respecting human rights. Even if we look back at the history of the country we see the on of the major discussions over ratifying the constitution was about bill of rights. Besides, many of the pro- human rights institutions are founded in America like Human Rights Watch. "Human Rights Watch is a United States-based international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. Its headquarters is in New York City"¹. "Pursuant to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Human Rights Watch opposes violations of basic human rights, including the death penalty and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Human Rights Watch advocates freedoms in connection with fundamental human rights, such as freedom of religion and the press" ² . Many times countries like Iran or Syria have been under harsh criticism under this subject. But what about human rights in America? Is there no violation of human rights? The answer is that human rights are sometimes violated even in America. Through the history of America whenever the country has been facing crisis the first thing that suffers is human rights. When the security is shaky, the violation of rights is justified to save the country. The same happened after September 11 when many restrictions and violations were imposed on human rights, even for American citizens. Among all others American Muslims suffered more because they were looked at as terrorists. One of the organizations that works for the human rights for Muslims is IHRC (The Islamic Human Rights Commission ) that celebrated its 10 year anniversary on November 11, 2007.it is" an independent, not-for-profit, campaign, research and advocacy organization based in London , UK . We foster links and work in partnership with different organizations from all backgrounds, to campaign for justice for all peoples regardless of their racial, confessional or political background"². In IHRC website you can see cases of violation of rights related to Muslims. There you can find some examples of human rights violation that occurred in US. Go and have a look at it. It'll worth it!

1)            Quoted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch

2)            Quoted from: http://www.ihrc.org/