The Importance Of Human Rights In Peru

Human rights are entitled and protected by law. It asserts that every person is free and equal in dignity and rights without regard to race, religion, religious creed, color, gender, and ethnic or national origin. Also, it is the foundation of rights that encourages people to live peacefully in society. However, people do not really understand the whole concept of Human Rights, and they usually been taken their rights by authorities such as government or other organizations. Currently, there are numerous problems about human rights in the countries of South American, Peru is the one of countries that are facing with numerous human rights violations. Therefore, this essay will explain the pertinent points in favor of the freedoms in Peru, included freedom from want, freedom from fear and freedom of speech. Peru is the largest country that is located on the western border of South America divided into three main parts; dryness, snow-capped and tropical rainforest. The indigenous people are Peruvian Indian, which are just only the minority of the populations. Hence, most of them speak only their ethnic language and Spanish, with a smattering of English. The Peru's capital has the greatest economic activity that is located in La Costa. It has many natural resources, which …show more content…
Peru is the country that frequently has violent crimes. First crime that associates with this freedom is violation crime from protest. In 22 May 2014, around 100 people were injured from protest in Lima. Four of the victims were killed and one of them was a police officer. As a consequence, the government deploys an army to that area in order to solve the conflict in Lima. The reason why police cannot handle the protest effectively is because international human rights law and standard does not allow police to use force in normal circumstance. Force will be permitted only when the situation is in a