A brutalized society

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Each fundamental right is an achievement.

As we are losing rights or allowing others to lose or not to observe them, we are moving toward the brutalization of society as a whole.

If civil life is governed by civil law which regulates our relations with our fellows as individuals within a society and with the State, and only for being members of the human family we have universal human rights, the question is clear:

The people whose rights have been ridden roughshod for over a century, abandoned, forgotten, held hostages by an armed conflict that endures thanks to human greed, have they ceased to be civilians?, have they ceased to be human beings?

If the West is not able to see even an iota of humanity in the people of Congo in order to commit itself to the advocacy of their fundamental rights, is probably their greed has dehumanized women and girls raped, the millions of victims of genocide, children forced to work in extremely hazardous conditions, orphans, malnourished children, mutilated persons, abducted by the militias, women and girls turned into sex slaves, inhabitants of looted villages, displaced persons fleeing the conflict, and in general, the millions of innocent victims of the plundering of Congo.

To the eyes of the victims, it is likely that those who have lost the human condition are the inhabitants of the West, which after more than a hundred years staring at the suffering of a people, have not been able to react to stop categorically such situation.

Extreme violence, absolute poverty, injustice and lack of peace, both for the sufferer and for those who stare in the distance without doing anything to avoid them, brutalize us all. We become less civil and less humans to the extent that we move away from the whereas in the preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
 
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
 
Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,
 
Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,
 
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
 
Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,
 
Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,
 
Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

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