Health Equity and Human Rights

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Health equity and human rights

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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Human rights issue................................................................................................................................2
Advocacy actions..................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................7
References.............................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
The human rights are the basic rights which belong to every person from birth to death. The
human rights can be restricted for some time but can never be taken away. These are defined
and protected by law. The basic rights are founded on the shared values like equality,
fairness, dignity, respect and independence. Angola is a west-coast country of Southern
African nation. It is the 7th largest country in Africa. Angola is a member state of OPEC,
United Nations, African union, the Southern African Development Community and more.
Angola has been criticized for its record of human rights. The major important human rights
abuses are official corruption and impunity, limits on the freedom of assembly, association,
speech, press and cruel and excessive punishment.
This report is going to discuss human right issue which is limits on the freedom of assembly,
association, speech and press. The constitution and law of Angola prohibits discrimination on
the basis of race, gender, disability, religion, language or social status. But the government
did not effectively enforce these prohibitions. Angola’s 2010 constitution assures right to the
freedom of expression and media. The government of the Angola is assumed to be engage in
the illegal surveillance of the journalists and the government opponents. The journalists in the
Angola are arrested, stressed and charged with defamation. Some journalists are even accused
of shooting, wounding, vandalism and burglary. The business organizations are also hassled
by the government to withdraw advertising from the media which is critical.
Human rights issue
The authorities in Angola continued to violate human rights laws by contradicting citizens the
right to peaceful protest. The security forces obstructed peaceful anti-government protests
with extortion, excessive force and uninformed detention. The government owns and keeps
the tight control over the largest media outlets in Angola (Sunga, 2017). It comprises
television channels and the radio station. Some of the outlets have national reach which
makes government owned media to the most widely accessed news sources. The independent
news outlets face pressure because of the denial of state and private advertising. It continues
to be problem for news outlets (De Búrca, 2017). The authorities used to occasionally seize
edition of newspapers which comprised critical information. Some examples of the human
rights issues can be understood from the examples such as since 2011, the security forces and
the agents in civilian clothes viciously cracked down a series of peaceful protests. The