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The lives of people vary tremendously all over the world, especially people’s human rights. Due to this, no matter where you live it is not valid to say that the human experience is relatively the same. The example of topics where human rights are violated and make the statement false are; female genital mutilation, child soldiers, and the mistreatment of Dalit’s. Egypt, India, and Uganda are countries where people struggle with obtaining their human rights because of these issues. On the other hand, Sweden has solved these issues making their citizens experiences different than those who live in Egypt, India, and Uganda. Egypt’s women are not protected with their rights regarding female genital mutilation. Women who live here have to undergo the painful surgery as young as only eight years old. As young girls their clitoris’s are cut or completely removed, or the labia minora is surgically removed and the labia majora are sewn together, covering the urethra and vagina. The process causes excruciating pain due to the girls not being put under anestisia, and it is done by midwives not professional doctors. Statistics show that sixty to one hundred forty million women around the world have gone through the genital mutilation, and it is preferred by the men for the women to have it done. This process violates the women and young girl’s rights to freedom of choice because they have no say in what is being done to them or the religion that requires that to be done. Dalit’s in India are the beyond the lowest class in the Caste System and the way they are treated shows it. In a letter to Prime Minister Singh of India from the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and Human Rights Watch from Brad Adams and Smita Narula, they shared that 165 million Dalit’s in India will remain living a life of abuse just because of the caste their born into. Nothing they do allows them to move up in class and as a result the children can’t go to school, the Dalit’s cannot own their own land, cannot have certain jobs, and cannot even touch a person higher in the Caste System because they are considered “dirty.” The Dalit’s obtain no human rights and have no other choice but to suffer living the life of an “untouchable.” Uganda is a country who has struggled tremendously with child soldiers. A quote from Jo Becker showed the seriousness of child soldiers in Uganda and showed that in 2003 the child abduction rates were alarmingly increasing. Due to the number of the abductions Jo said that there had more abduction in the past ten months in Uganda than ever before. In the article, “Story of Uganda’s Child "Night Commuters"” children would run away from home during the night to escape the LRA into being child soldiers. They would run away so they didn’t have to kill civilians, carry out raids, and become sex slaves. Not only do the abductions go against the children’s rights but it also goes against the law. Sweden on the other hand is a country whose people have gone through the issues, but over the years the Sweden government has solved the problems. With FGM Sweden has claimed the practice illegal and not acceptable in the country. Although immigrants in the country secretly have the procedure done Sweden is working on eliminating the immigrant’s practices. As for the child soldiers issue, the government passed the 1994 National Total Defense Service Act. That no one under the age of eighteen can be enlisted, but they can join programs only if they get parental consent in order to prevent the child soldier’s issue. Also, Caste Systems in Sweden do not exist. The webpage “Caste Systems in Sweden” says, “No one person is seen as better than another and annual income does not determine one's self worth.” There are rich and poor in Sweden, but the country does not treat them like the Dalit’s All in all, the comparison of Sweden ensuring their people human rights vs. Egypt, Uganda, and India whose people struggle with human rights regarding the issues of FGM, child soldiers, and Dalit’s shows how different people live. People from different countries all around the world struggle with fighting for their human rights, and the example provided is just one of the many differences. This being said, the human experiences are not relatively the same.