The United Nations independent Human Rights expert on Somalia praised the new Somali government for its progress on human rights. The expert met with Somalian President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and said that the country’s rights record has improved dramatically over the past five years.
The Somali federal government says it’s looking forward to eventually joining the UN Human Rights Commission by improving its human rights record. Somalia’s president says that plan requires carrying out reforms in the country’s national security and judiciary”.
I think this is mostly all hopeful thinking. There are crimes against human rights on a regular basis in Somalia and while I do appreciate the drastic improvement over the past five years as does the Human Rights expert, they are talking like it will be an easy and semi-quick plan to carry out reforms in the country's national security and judiciary. This will be no easy and simple task. Just this week a woman advocating human rights was murdered.
I was glad to read though that the president, "assured that his government will place more emphasis on the promotion of the fundamental human rights especially with regards to women and children who have suffered a great deal as a result of the war."
"Somalia ranks top among the countries in the world where human rights violation go unpunished. However, the UN expert called on the government to uphold and protect the principles of human rights with the assistance from the international community and the United Nations.
Human rights experts however believe that due to the absence of functioning institutions, perpetrators of human rights abuses including Al-Shabaab are rarely punished.
Despite all these improvements however, discrimination and violence against women, including rape; recruitment of child soldiers by government and Al-Shabaab continue to hinder the human rights progress in the African country."
What do you think? Is there future hope for Somalia and it regaining human rights that aren't frequently violated?
http://www.midnimo.com/2013/03/24/un-commends-somalia-on-human-rights/
I really hope that President Mohamud will place more emphasis on promoting Somalia's human rights. I think countries like Somalia should work harder to enforce rights for all. It will definitely be hard and will definitely take much time, but the fact that the governments is beginning to speak about it is a good start. Hopefully we will begin to see major changes in the region in regards to human rights.
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome and something to admire... especially when countries like Syria right now are in need of review by the international criminal court where human rights don't seem to matter at all. I think they could take a great example from Somalia (all countries) to see why it's so important for the people and their countries as a whole.
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