Earth Day: Do Environmental Rights impact on Human Rights?

22 Apr

Posted by Jim in Human Rights, Human Rights Video

When we think of Human Rights we tend to think about, freedom of speech, freedom from persecution on the grounds of religious or political belief, torture, unjust imprisonment and state endorsed police or military brutality, on Earth Day 2009 Human Rights Digest looks at the link between environmental rights and human rights.

Many think of environmental rights and human rights as two separate issues however for much of the world’s population they are very much linked, the following video by The Hub examines these links with stories from Ecuador, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Jamaica, Tanzania and other countries.

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democracy

May 26th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
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Living example of the relationship of democracy and human rights practices in the lives of foreign expatriates in Saudi Arabia, Arabian Gulf:

One of the men work for 20 years in the company in Saudi Arabia, a son and a brief period since the accident, he decided immediately to conduct an operation in a hospital in Jeddah Bakhsh, and after the end of the operation of the man’s son Sudanese nationality and is residing in Saudi Arabia shows that the cost of the surgery was 5,000 SR in addition to the expenses of his stay in the hospital Kenzil …

In fact, this man did not have their next meal to be paid fifty thousand riyals, he is in the bottom of a porter working all day and earn two or three days 20-25 by the SAR work in the vegetable market!

However, the men had been able to collect the amount as he went to one of his friends or acquaintances of former students and if the nominal amount of money to pay the expenses of treatment of his son, after he asked each asked to take the amount, and may you were among those who helped him, and read from the documents of the hospital and the health status of his son .. finally settled his emotional and psychological .. When I asked him, what were you after Araftk long been a rich man was well off??!

Replied the man, having finished my work in the company and obtained Mkavoti, I Kvalti and transfer as may be required by Saudi law to Saudi man (and it is known that foreigners must, in accordance with the Bail Act to write everything they have on behalf of Saudi Arabia to ensure they … and are not entitled to work in the same time without one of the foster parents) and less than a year after eating this man (the sponsor) every Omlaki and told me you do not have anything!

In fact, the law has protected the Saudi sponsor, this is what you do each of the sponsors .. alas, the Gulf and Saudi law protects crime and robbery, fraud and money there, and the so-called (foreigners) in accordance with this perspective! This man, who roam the streets begging for 50,000 students today, SAR, has been 5 years since the SAR 100,000 earned after hard work throughout the 20-year-old away from his family and his family and his country, and expatriates in the Gulf .. ordered closed by a beggar to the beggar.

Since long, I still hear the same story on the rights of foreigners to eat under the law of bail, and I think that it needs to be an international convention for the protection of human rights here in the Gulf to eradicate this pest and the crimes and protect state-sponsored law

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