Hypocrisy of the United States Government on Human Rights
The language that is used by government officials is critical when it comes to analyzing the governments policies. In “Introducing Human Rights and Literary Forms”, the authors Sophia A. McClennen and Joseph R. Slaughter demonstrates how spokespeople of governments can easily manipulate the language of human rights in order to justify violations of human rights such as attacks on Afghanistan after the 9/11. In Beth A. Simmons’s article “The Future of the Human Rights Movement”, she argues that fighting global terrorism by using military forces is sometimes used as a convenient excuse by governments to vindicate actions against the laws of human rights. Lastly, Hope Lewis and Isabelle …show more content…
The U.S. government uses lawfare, a negative manipulation of international and national human rights laws to accomplish purposes to backlash the efforts of human rights organizations of limiting the state policies in the war on terror. In addition, increasing pressure against human rights organizations to continue the hazardous behaviours of violating human rights. Through using fighting global terrorism as a convenient excuse, the U.S. government justifies torturing and spying on civilians and foreign political allies such as through the NSA (National Security Agency) (Simmons 190). This leads the U.S. to skeptical monetary decisions that draws attention. “The U.S. position on the terrorist financing has had an ominous echo in other parts of the world” (Simmons 191). Resulting in other governments to eliminate and limit foreign funding. Furthermore, the governments also limit the powers of human rights organizations and sometimes even shutting down some local human rights groups due to the funding restrictions. The U.S. government can cause severe impacts around the world with only small actions and therefore “cleaning our own house” is urgent and essential within the United …show more content…
often points at third world country when it comes to an issue on human rights and external issues are often focused more than internal issues. Violence, such as killings or physical attacks, are always put to the spotlight as the subject of outrage in the U.S.; however, violations of human rights ranging from police brutality, discrimination of colour, and domestic violence are ample within the country. Fauziya Kassindja, an asylee suffering from the FGM (female genital mutilation) practice in Togo seeks haven for the protection of human rights, demonstrates the irony of the policies in the United States. With the recognition of gender-based asylum widely protested by feminist groups in the U.S, Ms. Kassindja, expecting her plea for asylum to be met with respect and concern, was however, subjected to degradation and abuse – in the form of customary brutalization of people of color in the immigration and prison systems of [the U.S.] (Lewis and Gunning 129). Kassindja was not released until 16 months of detention and the pressure of legal appeals and letter-writing campaign. Lewis and Gunning state that “it would be the height of hypocrisy and cynicism not to grand asylum to those who fear the same practices that we condemn as human rights violations.” (136) Cleaning our own house should be an objective to solve and eliminating the problems within the United
The language that is used by government officials is critical when it comes to analyzing the governments policies. In “Introducing Human Rights and Literary Forms”, the authors Sophia A. McClennen and Joseph R. Slaughter demonstrates how spokespeople of governments can easily manipulate the language of human rights in order to justify violations of human rights such as attacks on Afghanistan after the 9/11. In Beth A. Simmons’s article “The Future of the Human Rights Movement”, she argues that fighting global terrorism by using military forces is sometimes used as a convenient excuse by governments to vindicate actions against the laws of human rights. Lastly, Hope Lewis and Isabelle …show more content…
The U.S. government uses lawfare, a negative manipulation of international and national human rights laws to accomplish purposes to backlash the efforts of human rights organizations of limiting the state policies in the war on terror. In addition, increasing pressure against human rights organizations to continue the hazardous behaviours of violating human rights. Through using fighting global terrorism as a convenient excuse, the U.S. government justifies torturing and spying on civilians and foreign political allies such as through the NSA (National Security Agency) (Simmons 190). This leads the U.S. to skeptical monetary decisions that draws attention. “The U.S. position on the terrorist financing has had an ominous echo in other parts of the world” (Simmons 191). Resulting in other governments to eliminate and limit foreign funding. Furthermore, the governments also limit the powers of human rights organizations and sometimes even shutting down some local human rights groups due to the funding restrictions. The U.S. government can cause severe impacts around the world with only small actions and therefore “cleaning our own house” is urgent and essential within the United …show more content…
often points at third world country when it comes to an issue on human rights and external issues are often focused more than internal issues. Violence, such as killings or physical attacks, are always put to the spotlight as the subject of outrage in the U.S.; however, violations of human rights ranging from police brutality, discrimination of colour, and domestic violence are ample within the country. Fauziya Kassindja, an asylee suffering from the FGM (female genital mutilation) practice in Togo seeks haven for the protection of human rights, demonstrates the irony of the policies in the United States. With the recognition of gender-based asylum widely protested by feminist groups in the U.S, Ms. Kassindja, expecting her plea for asylum to be met with respect and concern, was however, subjected to degradation and abuse – in the form of customary brutalization of people of color in the immigration and prison systems of [the U.S.] (Lewis and Gunning 129). Kassindja was not released until 16 months of detention and the pressure of legal appeals and letter-writing campaign. Lewis and Gunning state that “it would be the height of hypocrisy and cynicism not to grand asylum to those who fear the same practices that we condemn as human rights violations.” (136) Cleaning our own house should be an objective to solve and eliminating the problems within the United