Human Rights

This paper critically examines strategies employed by the government to address violation of the human rights. Guiding principle is that violation of the human rights should not only be in line with the protection of the human rights but it should care not to exacerbate or create existing situations that contribute to violation of the human rights by instituting practices and the policies that further undermine the rights of the concerned groups. Violation of human rights practices entail politically motivated imprisonment, murder and torture. Violation of human rights takes place globally.

Violation of human integrity is through imprisonment and torture. Democracy lowers violation of the human rights if properly used. Legitimate channels such as the elections and the political parties should carry the interests of the citizens to the government forcefully. Respect for the human rights encourages foreign investors in a country. Foreign investment has both direct and indirect effects to the society at large. Participation in the international and civil wars, democracy has important effects to repression. United state president declared total elimination of the autocratic systems in order to promote tyrannical peace.

Human rights violation
Violation of human rights and why human rights violation occurs is the main issue. Violation of the Human rights is a complex problem. Solutions vary, depending on how the problem is defined, meaning what is seen as the problem that needs to be solved. Violation of the human rights normally takes place in the autocratic systems especially in the systems where there leaders are isolated.  This is because in this personalist system, the individual in power attempts to protect himself from those that do not have any institution to influence the government.

In an autocratic system where the government has involved more organizations, repression is lower for the individuals in power channel the citizens to the political institutions. Recognized political institutions reduce human right violation as an alternative to influence the citizens. According to Davenport (2007), repression in the autocracy systems include activities such as the domestic spying, arrests, acts of censorship, torture, disappearances, political banning, mass killing and verbal and physical harassment. Military systems of autocracy are less repressive, in terms of mass killing and torture (Davenport, 2007).

Human rights protection leads to good foreign investment leading to economic growth. Foreign capital interests are served well by the governments that control the labour force rigidly and secure favourable conditions to the foreign investors. According to Lindsey and Robert, (2006), human rights are important to the investors because of the desire to access new markets, awareness of the human rights violation and need for well trained labour. Human rights protection facilitates an environment that is conducive for the human capital development with countries more economically efficient, open and accountable. Protection of human rights attracts the foreign investors. Respecting human rights protects the country from the FDI enhancing the political predictability and stability. Lindsey and Robert (2006) states that respect of human rights lead to the decrease in the vulnerability of the investors in the cost due to the sensitivity of the public to the human rights violation.

Investors target those firms that are with the skilled, productive and educated workers. Investors target the societies which have high quality of the human capital. Productive and skilled work force can only be found in an environment that is conducive and where the human rights are respected. Respect of the human rights is associated with the improved female education and the infant mortality reduction indirectly. Human rights facilitates environment that is conducive for the development of the capital with the foreign investors (Lindsey and Robert, 2006). Foreign investment foster human capital development and engender the benefits of the economy.

Human right is related to the education and life expectancy positively. Respect to the personal rights contributes to a more educated and healthier society while yielding human capital. Respect for the human rights has direct and indirect effects to the foreign investment. Directly, respect for the human rights lead to reduction of the risk of investors as it enhances political stability, political predictability in the country and reduces the vulnerability to the cost by conscious public (Lindsey and Robert, 2006).

Effective democracy should provide the citizen with the tools to ban abusive leaders from office before they violate the human rights thus becoming a threat to the citizens (Stephen and Neal, 1994). Citizens should be given rights to vote and they should be represented by legitimate channels. Democracy has to be defined so that it does not preclude violation of the human rights if it is to function as an independent unit. Democracy should therefore be defined to allow it to operate as an independent unit in analysing the relationship between democracy and the repression. Traditionally, violation of the human abuse allow potential and encourages investment as the investor and the buyer are not involved in collective bargaining. In some countries political repression is used to maintain political stability and to cut down the labour costs. Positive relationship between the foreign investors and the repressive governance continues to cause problems in the foreign investment sector.

Proposed Theories
Mitchell and McCormick hypothesised that the economic conditions were negative in terms of the per capital gross national product. According to Stephen and Neal (1994), Mitchell and McCormick analysed violation of the human rights through the imprisonment and the torture. Henderson hypothesised that democracy would reduce the socioeconomic needs and repression. Henderson explained that the repression would affect the population growth (Stephen and Neal, 1994). Democracy is associated with the decrease in repression. Democratization therefore reduces the governments abuse of the human rights. Henderson hypothesised that increase in population led to increase in repression.
According to Henderson, the poorest countries with the political and social tensions that are as a result of the economic scarcity tend to use the repression to maintain control. Various variables were thought to be affected during repression. Stephen and Neal (1994) stated that these variables are personal integrity abuse, economic standing, population size, British cultural influence, leftist government, democracy, economic growth, international war, population change and military control. There is no evidence of the Henderson hypothesis that states that the increase of the population rapidly lead to repression. Amnesty International hypothesised that the regimes repress opponents when faced with international war or civil war (Stephen and Neal, 1994)

From the information gathered from the United States Department sources, it was evident that leftist regimes violate personal integrity. There is evidence linking the national experience in the wars to abuse of the personal rights. Abuse of the personal rights affects economy negatively. These hypothesises link the national experience in the international and domestic wars. International and domestic threats lead to increased violation of the human rights. Civil wars affect human rights greatly in the society as compared to the international war. Evidence shows that democracy lead to less repression (Stephen and Neal, 1994).

Conclusion
To solve issues affecting the human rights violation, there should be elimination of all the autocratic governments and replacing them with the democratic governments (Davenport, 2007). Government parties which are single party reduce state repression. Policy makers and human rights activists should note that not all autocratic regimes threaten domestic peace. In future, the regime should be disaggregated in order for the citizens to understand the circumstances under which the human rights and the restriction of the civil liberties.

Military autocracies decrease civil wars and at the end of the cold war military repression has various consequences. To reduce repression, policy makers should concentrate on reduction of the repression in accordance to the government they are confronted with. Human rights activists must utilise democratization alternatives that exists. Finally people interested to know why the state restricts civil rights and violate human rights must break up their conceptions about the type of system and violation of human rights.
 
Improving the country economic conditions within programs like foreign can promote respect for the personal integrity. Democracy in a country reduces violation of the human rights. Respect for the human rights can be gained through interaction of the human rights with the trade or trade agreements. Respect for the human rights is an area that values serve to strengthen and complement global economy.

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