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Relativism In Somalia
I am focusing on individuals that live in the city of Mogadishu, which is the largest and the capital city of Somalia. Incident civilians remain vulnerable to sexual violence and forced evictions, by the Islamist armed group Al-Shabaab. Cultural relativism doesn’t impact the human rights issue that I have identified. For the reason that, the group Al-Shabaab. Doesn’t look at Somalia’s culture from their behaviors, actions or customs. Al-Shabaab only cares about themselves and not the incident Somalians they are fighting. And also they are against Somalia’s federal government. It’s not right innocent civilians are being forced out of their homes. Somalia needs to have an effective government, so Somalia is no longer a war zone and a place
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