Asia

=ASIA=

//**Andrea, James, Mathew, and Peter**//

All aroud the world there have been reports of failure to abide with the rights of people. The corrupt governments are taking over and abusing people's given rights, by taken away their right to speak. Our group specifically focused on the regions in Asia.

The following are a few articles in question, countries have lost the sense of people's rights and as a result we see human rights being violated

Article 2.

 * Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3.

 * Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

**Article 5**  
 * Article 7.**
 * All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
 * Article 19.**
 * Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers

**Article 9** 
 * No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.


 * No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile

Article 26.
  Places in which rights are denied or not exercised:
 * (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
 * (2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
 * (3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Examples in Afghanistan
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/world/asia/14kandahar.html?scp=1&sq=January+14+2009&st=nyt


 * Women had acid sprayed and thrown at them because they were traveling to school
 * Serious cases of sexism and intelligence depravation have been apparent
 * The women affected have not been treated to the fullest recovery possible due to the severity of the attacks

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 * Tibet is not in good conditions. For several years now genocide has been a on going issue. genocide that has literally been going on for decades.
 * China needs to learn how to be more religiously tolerant and give more freedom to the tibetans.
 * In a tibetan news source they stated that "China has for 40 years been engaged in a relentless program to destroy the Tibetan people, their culture and religion. Little or nothing has been done about it, particularly by the ever-impotent UN."
 * It seems as if any possible attempts to stop the genocide from continuing just leads to a major public uproar in Beijing. The chinese communists have made it their mission to cleanse away the tibetan culture, trying to disguise their efforts calling it their "economic reform"

http://web.radicalparty.org/pressreview/print_right.php?func=detail&par=10400 [|**http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/opinion/18tue3.html?_r=1&scp=9&sq=tibet&st=cse**]

Examples in Thailand[[image:http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/gfo/lowres/gfon438l.jpg width="313" height="198" align="right"]]
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/world/asia/20thai.html?_r=1&ref=asia
 * An Austrailian novelist, Harry Nicolaides, has been given 3 years in prison for insulting the king of Thailand in hs self-published book that only sold less than twelve copies. He was actually sentenced to 6 years in prison but was given 3 //because// he was guilty.
 * He has been suffering for the past five months since he's been detained. He was actually kidnapped while trying to board a plane home to Austrailia. Suddenly, officers came by and arrested him, but he never knew there was a warrant issued for him.