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In line with the topic of  freedom for humans to live in peace, may I start with an apt song.

http://youtu.be/qQwCCm-H-sU - Living Darfur (Official Music Video)

The 10 Worst Countries For Human Rights

The Huffington Post  |  By Sara Gates, World Post News Posted: 12/04/2013 8:51 am EST  |  Updated: 12/04/2013 8:55 am EST

The number of countries at risk for human rights violations has increased in recent years.

In its 2014 Human Rights Risk Atlas, global analytics firm Maplecroft revealed that in the past six years, the number of countries with an "extreme risk" of human rights offenses has risen dramatically.

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Evaluating 197 countries on various human rights violations, Maplecroft classified 20 countries as having an extreme human rights risk in 2008. That number has since risen to 34. Of the countries with a high risk of violations, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Mali and Guinea-Bissau have seen the worst deterioration of their human rights situation, according to the report.

Geographically speaking, nations in the Middle East and North Africa account for the vast majority of the countries in the "extreme risk" category. With state repression of protests and widespread conflict, Syria ranks highest among the countries evaluated.

Several countries in sub-Saharan Africa also made the list of the top 10 worst offenders, primarily for ongoing ethnic conflicts and sexual violence.

However, state repression and violence are far from the only stimuli for human rights violations. In countries with emerging economies, for example, the potential for work-related offenses is growing.

"Since 2008, global economic growth and investment has shifted to new markets prompting a demand for low-cost workers, water and land as well as other natural resources," Lizabeth Campbell, Maplecroft’s head of Societal Risk and Human Rights, said in a statement. "In these economies, worker’s [sic] rights continue to be compromised, rural and indigenous communities face land grabs and forced displacement and repressive or corrupt governments clamp down on freedom of expression to maintain their grip on power and economic control."

As for countries with a lower risk, Scandinavian nations such as Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden round out the bottom of the list. The United States, with a "medium" risk of human rights offenses, ranked 139th among the 197 countries.

Human Rights Risk Atlas 2014 Worst Offenders 

 

No. 10: Nigeria

Machete and axe-wielding neighborhood              vigilantes hop into a truck on July 19, 2013, for an operation to hunt down Boko Haram Islamists in Maiduguri, where Boko Haram has carried out most of its deadly attacks in a four-year insurgency that has left some 3,600 people dead since 2009, according to Human Rights Watch.

    

No. 9: Yemen

Yemenis shout slogans in support with young Saudi woman Huda al-Niran outside the courthouse during her trial on Nov. 24, 2013, in the capital Sanaa. Niran, 22, was arrested and sued for fleeing from Saudi Arabia to Yemen with a Yemeni man after her family refused to let them marry, her lawyer told Human Rights Watch.

No. 8: Myanmar

Ethnic Chin refugees from Myanmar participate in a protest against their government in New Delhi on Oct. 30, 2013. The thousand-strong demonstrators held the protest against alleged discrimination and repression of Chin Christians by Myanmar's government. The ethnic Chin minority, 90 percent of whom are Christian, account for about one percent of Myanmar's 57 million people and live in the mountainous region near the Indian border.

No. 7: Iraq

An Iraqi man looks at the damages caused by suicide attacks on Nov. 24, 2013, in the northern city of Tuz Khurmatu.

No. 6: Afghanistan

Afghan university students and independent civil society activists take part in a demonstration in support of passing the Elimination of Violence against
Women law in front of parliament in Kabul on May 27, 2013.

No. 5: Somalia

A Somali refugee walks in front of a camp for internally displaced people near the parliament in Mogadishu on Dec. 4, 2012. The humanitarian crisis in Somalia remains "critical," said Stefano Porretti, acting United National Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia.

No. 4: Pakistan

Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai addresses the European Parliament assembly on Nov. 20, 2013, after receiving the EU's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize in recognition of her crusade for the right of all children, girls and boys, to an education.

No. 3: The Democratic Republic Of Congo

Troops in the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo patrol in Kiwanja, a town around 20 kilometers (12 miles) away from the fighting between army troops and rebels, on Nov. 2, 2013.

No. 2: Sudan

Members of the campaign group Sudan Change Now protest outside the Sudanese embassy in London on Sept. 28, 2013, during a demonstration about the National Congress Party regime and its brutal attacks on Sudanese protestors taking part in ongoing fuel subsidy and anti-corruption demonstrations.

No. 1: Syria

A picture taken on Dec. 1, 2013, shows damaged buildings in the Salah al-Din neighborhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.

EVEN THE RICHEST ARAB NATION SAUDI ARABIA IS AN OFFENDER AS THEY BLINDLY FOLLOW THEIR SHARIA LAW CAUSING HARDSHIP VIDE ARCHAIC PUNISHMENTS (Beheading for murder crime and amputating parts of arm for stealing) .

In 1977, an Arabian princess and her 19-year-old lover were publicly executed. British journalist Antony Thomas investigated this contemporary example of Middle Eastern jurisprudence; he then transformed his research into this 1980 docudrama. Suzanne Abou Taleb plays the unfortunate title woman in this unvarnished dramatization. The government of Saudi Arabia demanded that the film not be shown in Great Britain, but the BBC refused to buckle under. In America, Death of a Princess was telecast as an episode of the PBS series World on May 12, 1980. Despite the protests of the Saudi-Arabians and alleged pressure from certain oil-company underwriters of public television, the film attracted one of PBS's biggest-ever audiences. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi LESS

I was working in Saudi Arabia from '79 to '87 and have even withessed one of the beheading at Riyadh .

That's why I have compiled a personal WORLD VISION STATEMENT which must be complied by all nations if there is to be respectful and peaceful co-existence of humans as below. ( I am sure to get  shouts of dissent from readers to state that  I am in a dream world. But at least let us start thinking for sane living in this world.)

                     WORLD VISION

The only answer to the world’s problem of wars, poverty, communal hatred, repressive

governments, religious fanaticism, epidemics, environmental pollution and natural calamities

like earthquakes, drought, floods, tsunami-hurricanes and famine lie in the creation of a

STRONG WORLD GOVERNMENT of ethically service oriented people with the vision and will to

render worldwide economic, technological and medical  development, to ensure that every

human being is given basic education, to harness maximum land area for agricultural

development such that there is enough food for every world citizen, to retain sufficient

forest cover and environmental protection, to distribute resources worldwide, to establish

ethical business practices, to decisively restrain radically destructive people ensuring that

law and order prevails, and to teach mankind of truly harmonious co-existence so that

there is freedom of speech, freedom of cultural and religious practices, equal opportunity

for every world citizen and value for human life.

 

Many cults and religions teach that salvation is only for their believers thereby invoking

fear on people of other religious faiths in their states for fear of conversion. Due to

poverty and illiteracy, martyrdom vide suicide attacks and ambushing innocent citizens in

the names of religions are encouraged by these ethnic leaders. This is wrong and all world                                                                                             citizens must oppose such persons and groups.  Any territorial or wealth dispute must be                                                                                           resolved on the basis of discussions with the will to resolve issues than standing by                                                                                           unreasonable patriotic or religious adamancies.

 

Governments in the form of monarchy, dictatorship, communism, socialism, and democracy

are not able to bring peace and order to this world.

 

Yes, the answer for these problems is for national leaders to set aside egos, elect a world government, and agree to abide by the rules set by such a body as federated states. This world government must have men and women who will stand for the right even though the heavens may fall and will have the following ideals in carrying out their duties.                 

 

* We shall be fair in our dealings to all concerned.

* We shall convince people of the need for a common code of world  

   ethics  considering the cultural and religious values of all people.

* We shall always aspire to attain the goodwill and trust of all people.

* We shall constantly strive for the equilateral development of the world

 

The immediate need is that weapons and military arms of all nations must be given to

the care of the world government with a global law that no human being has the right

to possess any weapon. The only organization to carry weapons is the police force of the

world government to implement law and order guided by a global judiciary system to impart

justice to all.

 

              “ONLY THEN CAN WE FEEL AND HEAR GOD TELL US      

                   WELL DONE  MY CHILDREN. “              

                                                                             - thoughts by Tony Chacko            

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