US intervention in human rights
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US Intervention in Human Rights
Organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have been participants in international affairs regarding Human rights violations and mistreatments. It is the duty of the international community to intervene in any society violating and mistreating its population. By intervening, not only do the violations become publicly scrutinized, but these being mistreated receive indirect support and the governments of the violator states are infected with foreign influences intending to reestablish human dignity rather than creating war or more crimes against man. The general belief in the 20th century is that the international community should intervene in any society that violates generic human rights. Three reasons I find necessary for intervention are to maintain international security, to uphold human rights, especially the right to life. And to alleviate suffering caused by famine or other humanitarian crisis.
Intervention can be requested by a host government seeking aid, imposed on a government that is threatening or endangering its own people or others, or provided to states where anarchy has overran the government. Intervention is summoned because there is an injustice occurring on the international level. The U.S...