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Human Rights Defence has now announced the results our essay competition. At third place Shoma A. Chatterji’s “Eunuchs of India – Deprived of Human Rights” is placed. Here is a snippet from its introduction…
“The International Human Rights Day comes and goes every year. Human Rights activists talk of torture of under trials in police custody. They talk about human beings being subjected to medical experimentation without their conscious knowledge. They discuss socially relevant subjects like violence against women, child abuse, trafficking or exploitation of child labour in TW countries. But the lot of the community of eunuchs is largely ignored even by their own. It is also true that at every stage of their existence, their rights to live and work like normal human beings are violated with impunity.”
If you like to read more, you will find it on our site: http://www.humanrightsdefence.org
Yours sincerely,
Tomas Eric Nordlander
HumanRightsDefence
South Asia Continent People Analysis
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Gorah European 1M
Kalah African 1M
Chaptha East Asian 20M
Bhoorha South Asian 1300M
Arabie West Asian 20M
Adiwashi Jungle 50M
Manushay Earth 108M
Total South Asia 1500M
North America Continent People Analysis
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Gorah European 350M
Kalah African 60M
Chaptha East Asian 20M
Bhoorha South Asian 5M
Arabie West Asian 5M
Adiwashi Jungle 50M
Manushay Earth 35M
Total North America 525M
Manushay or human, are usually people that are mixed, hybrid, interracial or the sort, where we cannot specifically identify their physological identity.
5M mean 5 Million people, 1M means 1 Million people and so on.
It is not difficult to find negative aspects of the practice of globalization, democracy and development. I am more positive to human rights. Galtung (1996) discusses if there is “a common human thing” which could be the secret of cooperation and prosperity for mankind. I will in this essay argue that this is an extremely important question in a global and unequal world which obviously does not respect each others differences.
The above is an extract from Line Løvåsens essay “Improving Human Rights and Development”. This essay was ranked among the top ten essay in Human Rights Defence’s Essay competition 2008. If you would like to read more, visit: http://www.humanrightsdefence.org
Yours sincerely,
Tomas Eric Nordlander
HumanRightsDefence
Reference
- Galtung, Johan 1996, Peace by peaceful means-Peace and conflict, development and civilization. London: Sage Publications