From Human Wrongs to Human Rights Many Novels

Imagine for a moment what it would be like if the entire population of Sonoma County, California was killed, and twenty years later not many people knew a great deal about it. When over 500,000 people, primarily Tutsis, were killed in the Rwandan genocide in 1994, it was a great tragedy. However, no one rushed to the country’s aid. Now it is vital that the horrors of the instance that violated the human rights of so many, is not forgotten. Human rights are the universal actions and objects that all people are entitled to because they are human. Human rights have been violated in numerous ways over time, typically as a result of a person in power having their own best interests in mind rather than the peoples´. Various groups, such as Amnesty

In the book “Night” many people’s human rights were compromised. “Night” is a fictional book authored by Elie Wiesel with a fictional character, Eliezer, based on him. THis young jewish boy and everyone in his city along with him are kidnapped from Sighet were they are forced through terrain, camps, and so much more to end up in one place. Death! The events of the Holocaust, definitely as we all know, broke our basic human rights. However, this brought up the question specifically, “What are our human rights? ” On December of 1948 the UDHR, or Universal Document of Human Rights was approved in the United Kingdom. This document answered many of our questions listing in quite detail, about 30 of our basic human rights. THree of these rights were: life, liberty, and personal security, freedom from slavery, and to have an

A few United Nations representatives from Cuba, India, and Panama have wished to resolve the problem of genocide by recognizing it as an international crime, as stated in Document A. For example, inadequate provisions were placed when various Nazis were not punished for their wrongdoings. Nonetheless, this is seen as a negative aspect; however, it should be seen as motivation for others to strive to prevent further acts of genocide by punishing it as an international crime and create international laws. Since the late 1940s the United Nations has brought forth countless amounts of articles and documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Document E), which includes various articles that back up specific rights such as the right to life, liberty, and security of person, for these rights have since then helped prevent acts of genocide. It is through international laws where genocide will be ceased by making it an international crime, where it will assure international cooperation for its prevention and be dealt with its true deserving

World War II, a war lasting from 1939 to 1945, was the deadliest war known to humankind. Among the events of the Second World War was the Holocaust; a state-sponsored persecution of over six million Jews. A Holocaust survivor and author, Elie Wiesel, wrote a memoir called Night about his experiences in the concentration camps. To prevent such catastrophic events such as the Holocaust happen again, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) to bring peace to all nations and guarantee unalienable rights to all. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, he illustrates several examples of dehumanization towards jews, such as torture, property deprivation, and servitude, which resulted in the creation of the UDHR.

During the Holocaust, over six million Jews were horribly murdered, starved, burned, and ripped of their humanity and rights as a human. Unfortunately it wasn’t until after the Holocaust when the United Nations came up with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that every single human being has their own rights that should never be violated. From having the right to life and liberty, to no torture, and even being equal to the law without discrimination.

The Holocaust, one of the cruelest acts of humanity. Men, children, and women were persecuted due to their religious beliefs by Hitler and his Nazis Soldiers. Most people believe they have basics rights as humans, that they are born with. The prisoners of war in Eliezer Wiesel's memoir, Night, were dehumanized brutally by being disinfected, tattooed, and stripped by the Nazis throughout the Holocaust for being Jewish. They were not treated with any respect and were not treated like humans.

The Holocaust is one of the most prominent examples of injustice against humanity. It was a genocide against Jewish people, this happened during the period of the Second World War, by the Nazi community led by Hitler, a leader of the German people. One of the most important factors was that they did not respect their rights, human rights are indispensable for human beings, they cannot be denied to anyone, regardless distinction of nationality, sex, ethnicity, language, religion or any other distinction, we all have equal rights.

Most people could never imagine killing millions of people due to hatred of their beliefs, but as we know it has occurred throughout the history of our world. In April of 1933 the beginning of a tragic incident known as the Holocaust broke out. It was now either life or death for all Jew’s in Germany. Families were torn apart, lives were taken, homes were destroyed, and now they would be controlled by one single man with a group of Nazi soldiers. Hitler was the one who lead this action due to believing that their race was subordinate and thinking that they were an alien threat to German racial purity. With his soldiers by his side, they took the lives of many Jew’s and tried changing everything about them. Many of these people suffered in ghettos and concentration camps. They lived their lives not knowing if they would be here the next day. THESIS:

The crime of genocide is a horrible, despicable crime, though many have fallen victim to it throughout the years.Their voices silenced forever, leaving the world with few records of their experiences. Elie Wiesel, author and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, survived the Holocaust. His family members and friends were victims of this genocide. He captures in his memoir, Night, the grim feeling of suffering during the Holocaust when he reports, “Not a sound of distress, not a plaintive cry, nothing but a sound of mass agony and silence.” (89) At the time of the Holocaust, genocide had not been defined, but when the definition came out, it became apparent that the definition only protected

The idea that there are rights that are applicable to all of humanity originated during the eighteenth century in the Enlightenment and the American and French Revolutions. The atrocities committed during World War II, as well as the Four Freedoms, forcefully raised the issue of human rights in the postwar world. The victorious Allies put numerous German officials on trial before special courts at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity. This was the first time that individuals were held directly accountable to the international community for violation of human rights. The trials ended up sentencing many Nazi officials to prison terms and the execution of ten leaders. In 1948, the UN General Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It identified a broad range of rights to be enjoyed by people everywhere, including freedom of speech, religious toleration, and protection against arbitrary government, as well as social and economic entitlements like the right to an adequate standard of living and access to housing, education, and medical care. The document had no enforcement mechanism. However, it set the core principle that a nation’s treatment of its own citizens should be subject to outside evaluation. This slowly became part of the language in which freedom was discussed. After the Cold War ended, the idea of human rights played an increasingly prominent role in world affairs, but during the 1950s, Cold War imperatives shaped the

Renowned Zimbabwean revolutionary Robert Mugabe states, “Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the course of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.” This quote vocalizes what human rights are and the steps necessary for liberty. However, this set of rights are constantly in violation of mankind itself in innumerable instances. The most evident event that violated these rights is the Holocaust in World War II. This Holocaust was the persecution of Jews and people deemed “unfit” by Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party during the nineteen thirties and forties. Though this catastrophic event caught the attention of the world, this is not the only time in history human rights being in violation. The Japanese effort in World War II to create biological weapons for the war is another example of human rights being taken away by mankind. After this war, the United Nations created a “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, Article Five stating, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

The Holocaust began slowly. Age-old prejudice led to discrimination, discrimination to persecution, persecution to incarceration, and incarceration to annihilation. And mass murder, which culminated with the killing of six million Jews, did not begin with the Jews nor did it encompass only the Jews. The violations of one group’s rights are seldom contained only to that group (George 26).

All human beings are born with equal and inalienable rights and fundamental freedoms, but where was this saying when the Holocaust was going on? The Holocaust was the biggest, most brutal, and baddest mass killing of a single race. The people on the side of the Holocaust did not listen to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or anything to persuade them to stop killing Jews. All humans deserve the rights given to them by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The genocide committed during Second World War is one that still scars the human psyche to this day. The horrors of the Second World War lead to Raphael Lemkin’s creation of a new word, “genocide” in 1944 (Conversi 2006: 320). The definition of genocide is still under dispute by academics (Dallaire and Coleman 2013: 778; Manaktala 2012: 179; Hinton 2012: 11). For the purposes of this essay the definition used is the one created by the United Nations following the signing of resolution 240 (Stanton 1998: 1). The definition in the current form reads, “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part a national ethnical, racial or religious group” (United Nations Resolution 260 1948: Article 2). Using this definition, the three best examples of genocide in this era are Rwanda (Magnarella 2005: 801), The Holocaust (Vardejo 2012: 81) and Armenia (Hinton 2012: 13). Using these three genocides, this essay will examine the three key causes of genocide in the modern era. The first being hardships both economic and created by war that ultimately lead to a genocide. The next is the creation of an ‘us vs. them’ ideology which leads to the dehumanisation of the victims. The final cause is the enlightenment concept, which supports the perpetrators belief that they are doing this for a better world.

Concentration camp prisoners during World War II were subjected to cruel torture, starvation, and mental anguish. A reflection on this inhumane war and its abuse of rights brought into question which natural rights human beings are entitled. Thus, a document, called the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” was adopted by the United Nations that outlines which fundamental rights every being deserves . However, this document is largely ignored today. Many ignore this document because they do not agree with the concept of “human rights” or disagree on which rights are basic rights. Every being is entitled to natural human rights, and these rights are based upon the fulfillment of Thomas Aquinas’ three natural inclinations.