Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Report

Running Head: UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Running Head: UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be considered as an effect of
Second World War, which was furnished on 10 December 1948. It was proclaimed
by UN general assembly on the same day. This doctrine recognizes the inherent
dignity and other associated rights. The aim of this paper is to elucidate the violation
of ‘Article 3’ of UDHR in the countries of Australia, Brazil and South Africa in
contemporary context.
Article 3 of ‘UDHR vouches to safeguard the right of every individual to live a
secured life with their inherent liberty. However, in the current socio political scenario
it can be noted that many countries are violating this doctrine on the grounds of
social, ethnic, political, racial, religious, economical indifferences. It will be wrong to
assume that countries with autocratic rule or totalitarian regime are involved in the
practice of such violations but in reality, leading democracies of the world indulges in
such violation (Schabas, 2013).
The first example, which can be sited in the case of such violation, is Brazil.
Though Brazil had signed the UDHR, it is country where UDHR is violated to its
extreme in terms of the violence perpetrated against the members of
LGBTQ+ .community, extra judiciary killings where people are being executed in the
prison, before they are presented for trials, violating and threatening. However, a
significant portion of the violence is being perpetrated towards the people of colors
and women. People from both the categories comprise of a significant portion of the
population, approximately 50% of it. Though the cases of rapes escapes the
vigilance of the judiciary system, it needs to be noted that the numbers of incidents
increase in an alarming rate (Hutagalung & Tharbe, 2016). Women also encounter
domestic violence beside experiencing sexual violence. The country’s judiciary
system hardly undertakes any initiative to cater to these issues to safeguard the right
of its citizens.
After the apartheid, it had been anticipated that South Africa would reframe its
constitution to safeguard the dignity of its people. The progress exhibited in framing
remained unrealistic as the state failed to recognize the importance of right life for its
subjects. The reality in South Africa exhibits the gigantic irony as most of the
countries who violates the human rights even after including them in their legal