Today’s society holds human rights in the highest regard – something not quite true for the 11 countries with the worst human rights violations in the world. Unlike the places in our list of the 11 countries with the best human rights ranking, these countries hold little to no respect for every person’s basic rights given at birth. These include the freedom to retain physical integrity and not be harmed without reason, the freedom to speak freely and the freedom to own property. While the list goes on, this should give you the basic idea of how bad of a treatment people in these countries receive on a daily basis. Lots of the items on the list are states that are torn by war or recover from it. Many of them have no effective rulers and protection services, while others have exactly the opposite – oppressive, totalitarian rulers and services.
The concept of human rights is nothing but new. These are the inherited, not based on anything except the fact that you are human, right which are not governed by any attribution to race, age or creed of yours. The earliest recording of their conceptualization can be traced way back to the sixteenth century, when it was speculated that there should be a set of moral rules which are based on the “natural law”. Such proposals were made by people who fought for equality between the social classes and the then discovered indigenous people of the new continents. From then on, throughout the next couple of centuries, the focus of human rights moved on to the use and treatment of slaves. During the nineteenth century, the human rights concept evolved to include every race and religion, every minority and the then strongly underrepresented women in these minorities.
Nowadays, the concept of human rights has shaped up quite well, aiming to secure at least the very basic moral standards by which a living person should be respected. Even so, there are far too many breaches in them for us to call them finished and refined. There is still a lot of tyranny in the world, a lot of shady practices and even in the strongest upholding countries for human rights. Be it because of a complicated political or moral situation or pure savagery or tyranny, let’s look at the list of countries which still violate the very basic we are born with.
11. Nigeria
Nigeria has been torn by rebellions and various other violent conflicts which have left regions of the country completely void of any rule or order. In such places, militant groups choose how to treat people and their rights with a very predictable outcome.
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10. Yemen
Under radical Islam, Yemeni people have committed numerous human right violations. The worse part is that the government does not support the innocent and hard working people, leaving them to their fate.
9. Myanmar
Myanmar’s heads of state have proven to be quite the oppressive bunch, treating their population’s minorities and their fundamental rights with utter disrespect for years now.
8. North Korea
We all know about North Korea’s absurd regime. While the state treats certain social classes to the rights to remain alive and keep their earned property, the lower ones are left to starve and treated like cattle on certain occasions.
7. Iraq
Iraq’s gone through hell since the religiously centered groups overturned their democratic government decades ago. Even more, Iraq’s post-war recovery is going quite humbly, leaving people to the will of militants and religious radicals.
6. Afghanistan
Taking the 6th spot among the 11 countries with the worst human rights violations, Afghanistan suffers from the same things that Iraq does. The poor, hard working people’s rights there are rarely upheld by anyone. To make matters worse, their culture and religion gives practically no rules to women.
5. Somalia
Albeit being farther from the Middle East, Somalia exhibits some of the same symptoms as the countries there. Being an Islamic country (and not a modern one at that), Somalia gives its women no rights except that of being treated as property.
4. Pakistan
Pakistan’s minorities and demographics repressed by the religion and culture have suffered for a long time. Through war and peace, Pakistan fails to get on an acceptable level with protecting people’s human rights.
3. The Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Republic of Congo has been swept by multiple extremely violent rebellions, government changes, corruption and a multitude of rogue groups which roam the country and wage war on innocent people.
2. Sudan
Sudan’s government is a textbook example of tyrannical corruption and neglect towards their population. To take it further, Sudan has been violently suppressing protests from its population for far too long.
1. Syria
Syria tops the 11 countries with the worst human rights violations in the world with its practical state of constant war for years now. Nobody is safe in Syria, no matter on what side, how violent and how innocent.
