In my opinion, while this raised happiness and hope all around the world. Like a lot of politicians, it fails to fulfill its promise. To this day, millions of people around the world are denied of their human rights for example, The Xinjian re-education camps in china where they are holding at an estimate of 1.5 million Uighurs, who are recognized as ethnic minorities. According to PBS, “members of the Muslim minority say that they were detained, interrogated and beaten because of their religion. Many say it is clear–they were interned, not ‘re-educated'”, which is a clear violation of many articles of the UDHR like Article 18, “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.”
This is interesting to me because, according to USNEWS, “China is not only a signatory to the UDHR, but also played an important role in writing it”, which makes me question why China is not being punished for violating this declaration of human rights. What is the use of drafting so many articles and passing so many laws if big powers like China can ignore it without much consequence?
Source:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/uighurs/
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