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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. ... 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. ...
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 United Nations created a subdivision within itself to monitor and fix human rights violations that were spotted within the participating countries. Countries within the UN also have to sign periodic reports that encourage government officials within the country to examine their human right policies, and if found guilty, the country can be kicked out of the UN. Because many of the countries are threatened by being scrutinized by outside interventions, (UN), they very easily fold and change their human rights policy. Scaring tactics have proven to be very effective, even if the violating states understand that they are just being threatened in order to alter their existing policies on human rights. During the period of the Cold War US utilized the CIA as an instrument of foreign policy. ...
Intervention for human rights protection was not always this simple.
Approximate Word count = 1443
Approximate Pages = 5.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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