Essay About Human Rights Violations In The Philippines

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Introduction
What human rights violations are taking place in Philippines, Brunei and East - Timor and what is being done to address the problems. Using the UDHR the violations were found. The UDHR is a document stating rules on what a country or person should go by. Every country in the world breaks a few of these rights, no government can control their country so that it follows these rights, some countries a run by their religion and religions have their own rules and don 't go by these. The countries researched Philippines, Brunei and East-Timor don’t follow all these rules. There are many NGO’s doing their best to try to help countries get better but it will be a long time before countries actually acknowledge their problem and will want to change. Philippines does not violate as many articles compared to Brunei and East - Timor. Finding NGO’s that work in Philippines was fairly easy as the president started his term with the human rights in mind and he wanted to make a change in the country. NGO’s working in the Philippines have done a lot of work and it is on the way to a better future. The violations researched Philippines are the death penalty and torture and ill treatment. Through the research done about the NGO’s that work in the Philippines it looks like there are many …show more content…

On April 11th 2014 a member of the UN spoke to the government of Brunei when they were going to revise the penal code of the death penalty that hasn’t been effective since 1957. The member Mr. Coville spoke out saying that the government should postpone revising the penal code to think through it before putting it fourth. He said that by revising the death penalty the country is violating the UDHR and that stoning a person even if it is a criminal that is a form of torture and it is also violating another article on the UDHR. The government still put forth the death penalty and it has been used ever