Remembering the 60th year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

While the process of criminalizing politics is being intentionally accelerated in the world, the world on Tuesday is remembering the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) for its 60th year.

Satellite-guided bombs and other latest weapons worth billions of dollars are produced and sold to further commercialize conflict, violence and full-scale wars and civil wars. Millions of civilians are the principal sufferers from such organized and institutionalized crimes.

Those leaders and nations who directly provoke wars and invest in them do not feel ashamed at all. Instead they feel proud to have been able to escalate violence and war under different tags.

Similarly, money-mongering politicians who bargain for their own sale, have been engaged in further criminalizing politics, especially in the developing countries. They trumpet slogans of democracy and human rights while promoting and protecting smugglers, black marketers and other criminals with whom they have nexus.

While remembering the UDHR in its 60th year, it would not be a crime to remember how crime-minded political gamblers have hijacked democracy and human rights.

Although all the countries have paid lip-service to the inalienable and indivisible rights of human beings, they have not been able to implement their commitments.

Those having power tend to misuse it. Misuse of power results in gross human rights violations.

Human rights concept has gone into the international laws as well. But impunity has been a major concern today. Laws have been laws only for the innocent and helpless.

Moreover, information dissemination on human rights violations is not very balanced. The global media run by the media corporations of developed countries rarely report about the human rights violations in America and Europe.

Human rights monitoring institutions think their duty is to expose violations only in the developing countries. Why don’t human rights advocates and journalists of the developing countries oppose rights violations in the developed countries?

Perhaps, it would be appropriate to remember this 60th UDHR anniversary critically and analytically.