Human rights are universally grounded on the values of respect and fundamental freedoms; the central notion is that each individual is an ethical and balanced being who deserves to be treated with dignity. We are all equal, “born free and equal in dignity and rights,” and we are wholly entitled to human rights by virtue of being human. One’s gender, nationality, domestic or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status does not alter an individuals’ eligibility to human rights, which are devoid of discrimination. The following text will address the violations of human rights amidst social concerns including: organ harvesting, social cleansing and asylum seekers.
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The Falun Gong are spiritualists who practise meditation, they are nonconformists and ostracized by communist authorities. They express moral philosophy which circulates around truth and compassion. They are also key targets for organ harvesting. Numerous people are arrested illegally without a warrant. They are believed to be the largest prisoners of conscience in China today. “If you look at the timeline of the onset of China’s booming transplantation and the onset of the persecutions of Falun Gong, it almost runs in parallel with both of them beginning in 1999.” A doctor who worked in what she calls a concentration camp inside a Chinese and Western Medication Integration hospital describes how her ex-husband, a neurosurgeon, was involved in the removal of living corneas from members of the Falun Gong. Sincerely she says, “I testify to the atrocious crimes the hospital committed; in removing livers and corneas from living Falun Gong members … some of them were still alive when they were secretly burnt in the incinerator that was in the boiler room … .Their bodies were destroyed without a trace.” When her husband decided to stop removing organs from Falun Gong an agency attempted to assassinate
Violation of Human Rights is not just limited to issues such …show more content…
The Falun Gong are spiritualists who practise meditation, they are nonconformists and ostracized by communist authorities. They express moral philosophy which circulates around truth and compassion. They are also key targets for organ harvesting. Numerous people are arrested illegally without a warrant. They are believed to be the largest prisoners of conscience in China today. “If you look at the timeline of the onset of China’s booming transplantation and the onset of the persecutions of Falun Gong, it almost runs in parallel with both of them beginning in 1999.” A doctor who worked in what she calls a concentration camp inside a Chinese and Western Medication Integration hospital describes how her ex-husband, a neurosurgeon, was involved in the removal of living corneas from members of the Falun Gong. Sincerely she says, “I testify to the atrocious crimes the hospital committed; in removing livers and corneas from living Falun Gong members … some of them were still alive when they were secretly burnt in the incinerator that was in the boiler room … .Their bodies were destroyed without a trace.” When her husband decided to stop removing organs from Falun Gong an agency attempted to assassinate