What’s up with the world today? What is it that makes us do the most horrible things to our fellow creatures? People in the world get exposed to torture, sentenced to penalty and they disappear mystically. Some of the Human Rights

Some of the Human Rights ·The human rights stands for all people ·All people are worth the same ·All people have the right to live and be a citizen in a country. ·The countries shall take in refugees who don’t have protection in their own countries. ·No one shall be exposed to torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment UN’s Explanation of the Human Rights December 10 1948, the UN declared that every human being has inviolable rights. The UN published a small written document that was called " A general explanation of the human rights" and was handed out to specially schools and other educational establishments. Everyone has to know their rights, wherever they live and whoever rule over them. This was the first step to Amnesty International, which started 20 years later. What are the Human Rights? The Human Rights are individual rights every human being has.

It’s the state’s duty to protect all people, and be responsible for that everyone gets their rights. There’s many different rights. Some are political, which means that all people have the right to speak their minds and to believe in which God they want. Others are financial, social and cultural. People have the right to a job and to food. Everybody has the right to medical treatment, and be taught how to write and read. In the explanation, there’s a presentation of the countries thoughts about the importance of human rights. But they don’t promise to follow the rules. That’s why the next step was to make conventions. The conventions involve the rules for human rights. The countries which have signed the conventions, promise to follow the rules.

Amnesty International Amnesty International, AI, was started by the British lawyer Peter Benenson, who first arranged a campaign " Appeal of amnesty 1961", which idea was to help all people who were arrested because of his/hers belief, political opinions, his/hers

sex or race. The campaign grew bigger and Amnesty International was a fact. The symbol for AI became a lit candle surrounded with a barbed wire - the light of the hope in an unjust world.

Today, AI has about one million members, supportassistans and regular contributor subscribers in over 162 countries and territories. Local AI-groups have investigated over 45 000 cases and at least 36 000 have been straightened out. AI’s members contribute through charge fees, sales, collections and gifts between 90-100 millions euros every year. AI defends chased people’s rights to seek asylum in other countries. People looking for asylum shall not be rejected if they risk being exposed to torture or sentenced to death.

What does Amnesty work with?

One area AI works with is torture. Torture can involve being seriously beaten by rubber tubes and police-batons on your body, to get electricity shocks in your tongue and sexual organs, being burned by a cigarette on your shoulders and much more. During the 1980’s, there were reports that over 90 countries had torture. AI tries specially hard to teach the world that torture doesn’t exist only in the third world. There’s cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment against citizens in many countries, for example the UK, Italy and France. In these countries, AI knows there’s policemen that handle people roughly.

Asiye Güzel Zeybek, a chief editor from Istanbul was arrested in February 1997, charged for membership of an illegal organisation. She was sent to the Anti-Terror Branch of Istanbul Police Headquarters, where she was tortured and raped. Asiye has been in jail more than 4½ years while they who raped her are free.

After the September 10 attacks, AI are critical against the US for what they are doing to all people they’re keeping on the USA base in Guantànamo Bay on Cuba. In the human rights, it is written that all people have rights, including people who are suspected for the most serious crimes such as genocide and crime against humanity.

This is an execution by a firing squad.

Italy, the UK, Sweden and Human Rights

There’s so many horrible things that happen in the world, and there’s some countries that always have problems with breaking the human rights. Fortunately our countries aren’t three of those. We have been censured by the UN court for breaking the human rights, but it has
been about smaller cases.
Amnesty in Stockholm told that Sweden has broken the law when people looking for asylum don’t get it and are being sent back even though they can be exposed to torture or penalty. The police have also acted wrongly in arresting criminals. One man, Osmo Vallo, died of injuries
he got from the police when he was arrested.
In Great Britain, prisoners have been exposed to torture and bad conditions in prisons. Italian forces broke the conventions, when they worked for the peace-corps in Somalia, prisoners have also been ill-treated in Italian prisons. There’s also suspicions about crimes when prisoners have died under mystical circumstances. So a conclusion is that our countries are aware of the human rights all people have, even though there shouldn’t be any crimes against people, which we still have. We have to pay more attention to what is happening in our own countries and others. No one shall be exposed to cruel and inhuman treatments. What do you think of how we treat each other in the world, and what should we do to change the many exposed people’s situation?

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              Amnesty International by Marsha Bronson
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              Bo Lindblom and Maria Johansson from Amnesty Stockholm