Importance of Regional Human Rights Systems and Criticisms of International Human Rights Procedures

Running head: HUMAN RIGHTS
HUMAN RIGHTS
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1HUMAN RIGHTS
Question 1
Regional human rights systems comprise of regional instruments and mechanisms and
often built to provide a helping hand, assistance and position to the regional people or certain
indigenous ethnic groups (Donnelly & Whelan, 2018). Regional human rights systems are
known to be playing an important role in the promotion and protection of human rights in the
contemporary global world. Regional human rights systems of Africa, America and Europe
are the most significant and powerful regional human rights systems that are functioning in
the present world. Regional human rights systems are indeed important because it helps in
localizing the international as well as trans-national human rights norms and customs in order
to apply them in the regional human rights issues in a righteous way. In case of America, the
inter-American commission had created several Rapporteurships which includes the rights of
women, a Rapporteurship on the Rights of the Child, a Rapporteurship on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, a Rapporteurship on the Rights of Persons Deprived of Liberty, a
Rapporteurship on Migrant Workers and their Families, a Rapporteurship on the Rights of
Afro-Descendants and against Racial Discrimination, a Rapporteurship on Human Rights
Defenders, and a Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression. Therefore, such
organizations are indeed important for the country because it provides assistance and shelter
in case of any violation of human rights of the vulnerable communities. On the other hand,
the African region human rights systems too are concerned with freedom of Expression and
Access to Information; Human Rights Defenders; Prisons and Conditions of Detention;
Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons; and Rights of
Women.
Question 2
Kony 2012 is a documentary film which is based on the life of fugitive Joseph Kony
who happened to be associated with a fugitive charity movement in Uganda. The purpose of