Human Rights Project

I feel very strongly about human rights and having a free opposition. I feel a person should never be tortured by another human for expressing their opinion. Although humans have treated other humans horribly since they have existed I still feel this needs to stop. To create a change from these abuses, people must know about them first. So the main part of this project is just to get people to look at some examples of human rights issues. So I made a poster with some pictures and websites that will hopefully get people thinking about these issues.
I worked with Jenn Doxsee for this project. To make this issue clear to others we put up posters in residence with pieces of information about different human rights issues going on around the world now. We looked at Burma, where people from the opposition being arrested in mass amounts, including Monks. Even though another group has done a project on Burma, I think this is a very important issue and wanted to look at it myself. When a government can completely stop a revolution from happening by simply using force without anyone else intervening is unbelievable. We looked at Kurdish issues, the chemical bombings in Halabja, which occurred in 1988. This was included in Saddam’s Anfal campaign of Arabization in Kurdish areas. We also looked at Kurds being oppressed in Turkey for simply being Kurdish.
I’ve been watching the news since I first moved to Iraq, in 1998. I’m now a news freak. I religiously check the BBC website at least 10 times a day so I didn’t really learn anything for this project, other than figuring out group work is hard. I’ve always felt strongly about human rights issues and feel that other people need to know about them.