Human Rights Violation In National Security

The combat against terrorism began after the major terrorism attack in several countries, such as United States, United Kingdom and so on. The countries struggling from terrorism threat to the national security face the fact that the terrorist groups bring such compromises to the national security to the state. The states have realized the importance of the securitization of human rights protection and have declared the war against terrorism as the enemies to the national security as well as to the human rights violation. After the terrorist attack, the states feel such a need and obligation to establish such a national security institution and law reinforcement to firmly defeat the terrorism groups. According to Universal Declaration of Human Rights article 5, which elaborates the rights of human being to not to be tortured, or be through cruelty and every sort of inhuman treatment , the government shall integrate human rights protection with national security by playing a big role in eliminating the threats caused by terrorism attack. The integration, moreover, has to pass broader than just reducing the number of suspicious terrorism groups exist. Such a specialised national security institution needs to be established for a country while combating terrorism. The strengthened security becomes the main key of success for government to reduce terrorism threat. The focus of the government in reducing the threat will also be the government big step to protect the basic human rights to every citizen. We can take a look at the case of Bali Bombing, while the security threat came from radical group from other countries. Indonesia consistently fought the battle against terrorism ever since and that the war against terrorism has been pushed to the maximum efforts, Indonesia established such a specialised security institution along with law reinforcement regarding the

The effective foreign policy of a state shall determine the success of the states’ steps in protecting and promoting human rights. The foreign policy shall describe the attaining goals and interests of the state along with the states consistent effort in protecting human rights. We can take an example in the United States. It is one of the main interests of United States to protect and promote human rights throughout the world. As the pioneer of the human rights protection, United States feels obligated to campaign the human rights protection throughout the world, even to the countries with the high number of human rights violation. In some cases, United States risks the bilateral relations with other countries as a “threat” to present the importance of the human rights protection in today world. For example, United States recently bans visas from Venezuela regarding the human right abuses happening in Venezuela . This step, however, puts their relationship into a risk as Venezuela sees the US step as “threatening their sovereignty” while United States sees this as the motivation to promote the human rights and to stop human rights