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Severin Windsor January 7, 2011 Honors Global FINAL PROJECT

The human experience is a thing of many joys. Each life has different aspects too it and has a wide variety of things that happen to effect peoples lives in different ways. Life everywhere you go have some similarities and differences, everything has its pros and cons. The question is what is the human experience? Also, is it relatively the same, no matter where you live. Part of the human experience is having human rights, and the ability to live and enjoy your human experience without getting abused, raped, tortured, murdered, or anything of the sort. What exactly are human rights? Human rights are, rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled. After doing some research, it is clearly evident that the human experience, no matter where you live, is not the same at all. This is clear after looking at four separate countries, all from different regions from the world. The researched countries were India, Iran, Sudan, and Mexico. Relating back to the validity of the statement that the human experience is the same for everybody no matter where they live, it is shown by these four separate countries that within each country there are bad things happening, people live in fear of being tortured or raped or murdered in these countries. However each country brings it’s on fear to the residents that live there. India is the country where Hinduism is the primary religion. Part of the religion includes the caste system that they have been using for hundreds of years. There is another group included that doesn’t count the caste system and these people are the “untouchables”, also known as the Dalit’s or broken people. The Dalit’s are beaten by people superior to them in the caste system and they do the dirty work that seems almost inhumane by cleaning up the sewage and other jobs of the sort. Also in India there is a border problem because of the countries surrounding India being poor, people are trying to cross the border into a prosperous India. However the guards will murder anybody attempting to cross or people even close to the border, this including civilians. In another country, Iran, Humans Rights are being violated just the same. In Iran they have an Islamic Republic as their government. They however violate their citizens human rights all the time. For example same sex conduct or marriage is punishable by death on the first offense. Iranians don’t hold back from beating gays or lesbians in public or killing them. Another country that has been researched was Sudan, in Sudan the citizens are being terrorized by the Lords Resistance Army, or the LRA. In a recent letter to president Obama they in fact asked the US for some support in ousting the LRA. Also in Sudan, there is genocide going on in Darfur. The government and the Janjiweed are murdering resistance groups in Darfur. This is horrible to be happening, the government is killing their own civilians. The last country that was researched was Mexico. In Mexico a recent drug war uprising is causing for countless amounts of Human Rights to be violated. The gangs cause murder, torture, kidnapping, rape, etc. There is almost nothing that people can do in Mexico because there government is corrupt with people receiving cash flow from the drug cartels. However the US is stepping up to help, they are using $26 million to properly persecute the members of the drug cartels. In conclusion it is very evident that in our world today, the human experience is not the same, no matter where you live. Everyday people get raped, abused, tortured, and even murdered. It is going on in multiple countries as proven. However, things are being done to help stop the human rights violations going on in the world today. For example in Mexico the Human Rights Committee has raised important issues for Mexico to address regarding the use of their armed forces while fighting organized crime. Or in Sudan president Obama is going to try to help rid the LRA. The human experience isn’t the same everywhere. Everyday people face different adversities. However to achieve our human experience we must first help with the less fortunate to help them achieve there human experience.

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