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Human rights violation is a term used when a government violates national or international law related to the protection of human rights. A human rights abuse is when a violent opposition group carries out a similar action. The different terminology is used because violent opposition groups in general have not, in a formal legal sense, committed themselves to obeying human rights law, though most governments have committed themselves, in theory, to protecting human rights. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Human rights violation. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Human rights violation. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ...

Human rights violations and abuses most often thought of under the term human rights violations include those documented by organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Freedom of Expression Exchange. Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. ... Human Rights Watch is an international non-governmental organization based in New York City, USA, that conducts advocacy and research on human rights issues. ... The International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX), founded in 1992, is a global network of more than 60 non-governmental organisations that promotes and defends the right to freedom of expression. ...

A human rights abuse is abuse of people in a way that violates any fundamental human rights.

According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (generally accepted as the international standard for human rights), fundamental human rights are violated when:

A certain race, creed, or group is denied recognition as a "person". (Article 2) Men and women are not treated as equal. (Article 2) Different racial or religious groups are not treated as equal. (Article 2) Life, liberty or security of person are threatened. (Article 3) A person is sold as or used as a slave. (Article 4) Cruel or unusual punishment is used on a person (such as torture or execution). (Article 5) Punishments are dealt arbitrarily or unilaterally, without a proper and fair trial. (Article 11) Arbitrary interference into personal, or private lives by agents of the state. (Article 12) Citizens are forbidden to leave their country. (Article 13) Freedom of speech or religion are denied. (Articles 18 & 19) The right to join a union is denied. (Article 23) Education is denied. (Article 26) In practice, human rights abuses are more common in dictatorships or theocracies, whereas they are rarer in democracies, where they are mostly not structural. Human rights organizations such as Amnesty International (AI) have criticized the use of the death penalty, however, in some democracies such as the United States, particularly when the penalty is used against those who were minors when they committed the crime in question. Only a very few countries do not violate human rights at all according to AI. In their 2004 human rights report, (covering 2003,) the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Costa Rica are the only (mappable) countries that did not violate human rights.

Many international non-governmental organizations such as International Freedom of Expression Exchange, Freedom House, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Anti-Slavery International monitor and condemn human rights abuses.

See also

• Human rights abuse
• human rights in the People's Republic of China
• human rights in the United States

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Human rights violation. ... The situation of human rights in the Peoples Republic of China has been criticized by various sources, including other nations - particularly Western democracies - as well as international organizations, as being poor in many respects. ... While the human rights record of the United States of America has featured a strong avowed commitment to the protection of specific personal political, religious and other freedoms, it has also had a long history of legally-sanctioned slavery, and both de jure and de facto racial and ethnic-religious...

External links

• A Tamil human rights news portal