The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Analysis

Most people forget the importance of human right, not because it is not important but many of us never live in the shoes of those being violated. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was established in 1948(UN, n.d.), for decades that it is used to make people’s life better. However, in some areas it was not enforced locally, as there are still many people in the world both developed and undeveloped countries who suffered from various violations of human rights.
Fiji is a developing country located in the South Pacific . In 2008 the rural poverty was at its highest with 48% of the people living under poverty line(World Bank, 2015). Fiji was ruled by a military government from December 2006 until September 2014 when it had its first
The military coup d'état started in 2006 to bring down the former prime minister, Laisenia Qarase. Laisenia Qarase was jailed for corruption for five months and later confined in his home island(Central Intelligence Agency, 2015). After the coup d'état the country has seen to many restrictions which leads to the violation of freedom of speech, freedom from fear and freedom of worship. There are many cases of torture, arbitrary arrest and freedom of speech which has been very limited to journalists. Not only has the government controlled the media, they also intervene with justice system by limiting the independence of judges and lawyers (Amnesty International, 2009). Methodist church was prohibited from launching their annual conference until 2014 (Amnesty International, 2010
Fiji has unequal distribution of progress. In some areas there are no roads for farmer to take their produce to the market forcing them to sell in low price(World Bank,2014). Poverty in Fiji is a big problem as 45% of the citizen is in poverty (The Fiji Times,2010). Many people are not affordable enough to paid school fee and house fee where most effected group are people who live in the rural area. According to Word Bank “ 54 percent of the population was estimated to be living in poverty below the basic needs poverty line in the Northern Division, followed by Western Division (40 percent), Eastern Division (32 percent) and Central Division (23 percent). Western Division is the most densely populated and, therefore, makes the greatest contribution to the poverty headcount.” Poverty is a threat to the human rights of the Fijians because if there are more people who are living in poverty, it will be easier for the affluence people to manipulate the poor people into doing what they want either by using money or raising false