Mini Essay

GLOBAL ISSUES
Research Exam #1 / 
Human Rights
Overview
The most important resources of any group, organization and even country, are human beings.  Human 
life is important.  This importance should be universal.  Yet, from the beginning of time, humans have 
attempted to place a value or premium on one human life over another.  The discrepancy in the value of a 
human life is worldwide.
The United States of America has a compromised history in regards to Human Rights.  The USA has 
violated the human rights of Africans wrongly enslaved, Japanese-Americans detained during WWII and 
certainly Native Americans, the indigenous people of what we today call 
the
 Americas.  People who 
practice Catholicism and Judaism, along with the LBGTQ community have faced often violent biases in 
America.  
Today, in addition to the historic biases against the 
people
 groups referenced above, people of Hispanic 
ancestry are among the latest targets of unfair and unhuman treatment on American soil. It should be 
noted, human rights violations in America extend beyond the fore-referenced groups to include issues like
mass incarceration.
People, human beings, are at the center of Globalization and thus Global Issues.  The driving force behind
Globalization (the integration of markets, politics, values and environmental concerns across borders) are 
people.  Obviously, the treatment of people is front and center.  
Because Globalization has created a super-rich class, a 21
st
 century 
Gilded Age
, many people around the 
world view immigration as a problem.  People who are not native to a country, taking jobs, burdening 
public institutions, such as schools, hospitals...and increasing crime.  Human rights advocates deny these 
beliefs as being false and having no bases in reality.
Because, today, the USA is the world’s lone superpower and a great democracy, since its preeminence 
after WWII, people around the world have viewed the USA as the protector of human freedoms. In the 
opinions of many in America and worldwide, the Trump Administration has diminished the United States
of America’s role as a vanguard/protector of human rights.  Continued outcry over the Trump 
Administration’s detainment and separation of immigrant families, and the USA’s withdrawal from the 
United Nations’ (UN) Human Rights Council.  The council that replaced the UN’s Commission on 
Human Rights, first chaired by former USA First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. Moreover, the Trump 
Administration’s support of the Russian Federation and ill-treatment of the Saudi murder of journalist 
Jamal Khashoggi. Most recently, America’s silent with the reported executions of North Korea officials 
because of failed nuclear weapons negotiations with the USA.
Instructions
After viewing the video links
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 below, in not more than three paragraphs, answer the following question.  
Are the human rights of people around the world jeopardized because of USA indifference or withdrawal 
from the UN’s Human Rights Council
?
Please use complete sentences and standard grammar.   Your essay should be coherent (introduction,
thesis sentence, defense of thesis statement and conclusion). If additional references are used, please list
them on a reference page using APA citation formats. The rubric on page five of the class syllabus will be
helpful.
The assignment must be submitted in a 
Microsoft WORD
 document to the D2L dropbox folder by, 8:00
p.m. on June 6, 2019.  This assignment relates to information in chapters one, two, four and seven in the
course textbook. Students are encouraged to use additional research sources.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2019/jan/04/trump-administration-un-human-rights-violations
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If the link does not launch the website, copy and paste the link to access the video.


https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/AboutCouncil.aspx
http://theconversation.com/why-the-us-left-the-un-human-rights-council-and-why-it-matters-98644
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-19/trump-is-said-ready-to-pull-u-s-from-un-s-human-
rights-council
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayT-9ufAlnA
https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/ice-drops-aggravated-felony-charge-against-21-savage-g-1832625750
https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/trump-friend-defends-khashoggi-killing-1442809923672