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Human Rights Violations in the era of crisis: The violation of women and children’s rights in the ongoing civil war in Darfur region in western Sudan.

Prepared by: Hasan Abbakar Mohammad (September 2015)

Introduction ‘Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination (UNHCHR).’

The above quotation illustrates that human rights are ‘the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world (EHRC).’ In other words, they are the rights that every person has because …show more content…
Article 25 which emphasizes that ‘Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services,…’ Nevertheless, a huge number of Darfuri children miss the basic need of life because of the war. The UNICEF (2008) estimates their numbers by 2.3 million and 700 000 of them are children under-five years who grown up knowing nothing but war (UNICEF). The majority of the children live in Internally Displaced Camps (IDPs) that lacked food, clean water, prober sanitary, medical care while many of them exposed to malnutrition (Judd, n.d). Their rights to a standard life were denied by the government and its allied Arab militia by attacking their villages, farms, families by killing their parents, health centers and schools. How such rights can be granted while they live in IDPs camp that misses the basic needs of …show more content…
Where did the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Come From? Retrieved from https://www.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/content/education EHRCUNHCHR (2015) What Are Human Rights? Retrieved from http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/WhatareHumanRights.aspx

Human Rights Watch (2015) Sudan: Mass Rape by Army in Sudan Retrieved from https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/02/11/sudan-mass-rape-army-darfur

N. Flowers, (1998). Human Rights Here and Now. Retrieved from http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/hreduseries/hereandnow/copyright.htm

N. Judd , Security Now: Addressing the Needs of Darfur’s Children Retrieved from http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/researchdigest/minority/Darfur.pdf

United Human Rights Council (2015). Genocide in Darfur Retrieved from http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/genocide-in-sudan.htm

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1820 (2008) Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1820 UNICEF (2008) Darfur Overview Retrieved from

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