Discussion Human Rights Violations - Factors and Consequences

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Human Rights Violations - Factors and Consequences

Legal experts on human rights argue that the increased receipt by states of international human rights onuses asserted in UN and regional treaties, reinforced by the jurisprudence of international and regional tribunals, accounts for the sizable advancement that has been made in the defense of human rights throughout the world. The resultant political significance of international human rights law and the international community's growing expectation of compliance with that law explain why states engaging in large-scale human rights violations increasingly risk serious political and economic consequences for such practices. A state's continuing non-compliance with its international human rights obligations tends also to lead to the gradual loss by its government of the national and international legitimacy it needs in order to govern, which may in time contribute to its fall (Donnelly, 2013). Various nation states more so on the developing countries have widened the gap for political aggression in which parties to leadership manipulate the constitution to justify their political clinging in offices.

By practicing the political aggression, citizens are denied their rights of free choice to election and thus absolute denial of participatory rights in leadership. The countries like Zimbabwe in Africa, Uganda, Libya, Democratic Republic of Congo have emerged on the forefront of political infringement of democracy and thus citizens suffers much from aggressive politics. In South Sudan, it has been a complete turmoil in settling the escalating conflicts between ethnic groups. The violation of individual autonomy to life is another occurrence identified by the United Nation's charter on Human Rights. The convention for the declaration of death of people has been a threat to the human peaceful existence. Across the world, economic eradication has existed in the reduction of the human rights and in countries like Syria people are killed in continuous crisis of conflicts (Buergenthal, 2009).

The violation of human rights results to various suffering covering from the economic sanctions to various nations and exposure to hazardous lifestyles. Violation of human right has led to dictatorial governance, dirty politics and place of sanctions on rights of specific groups like the aborigines in the US and across the world. It also results into discrimination and unfair treatment in the participation on national development issues. Human rights and governance are intertwined with the violation of human rights leading to poor governance. In legal jurisprudence, justice dispensation remains a show case in the actions of handling cases and judicial autonomy.

References

Buergenthal, T. (2009). The contemporary significance of international human rights law. Leiden Journal of International Law, 22(02), 217-223.

Donnelly, J. (2013). Universal human rights in theory and practice. Cornell University Press.