Chile´s Position about Abuse of Human Rights

Every day is bigger the number of countries that join the fight against human rights abuses, but now is the turn of Chile to show us its position about this controversial issue.

Chile as any other country, knows exactly the feelings that a person feel under abuse, torture, threats and fear. Why?

For over 15 years the Chilean society lived under the regime of Augustus Pinochet, in this time, the life, integrity and freedom of Chileans was not taken into account. And it was not until 1990 that Chile could pass from a military dictatorship to a democratically government with the President Patricio Aylwin.

After 1990 a lot of time was not taken from Chile to recovering human rights of the society, but so far the people continue to struggle because injuries like that are not easy to heal ...

(13) Derechos Chile; Why keep looking back at the past.(2005)

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Current Human Rights Treaties in Chile

• International Convention for ensuring effective protection against the criminal traffic known under slavery name''white''
• International Convention for the Suppression of Trafficking in Women and Children
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
• Convention on the Status of Refugees
• Convention on the fight against discrimination in education
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
• Convention against Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading
• Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture
• Convention on the war crimes and crimes against humanity
• Convention to Prevent and Punish Acts of Terrorism Taking the Form of Crimes Against Persons and Related Extortion that are of International Significance these
• Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
• Jurisdiction of the human rights committee of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

(12) Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment.
CODEPU; Treaties in Chile.

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Nowadays Chile still struggling to recover 100% of the human rights of people and not only about their country, also of the rest of the world.

That is why the last 03 of April 2007, Chile was among the first countries to sign the International Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the first human rights treaty of the XXI century, and its purpose is to protect more than 650 million people with disabilities living in the world.


(11) Participemos, Chile firma en la ONU el primer tratado de derechos humanos del siglo XXI.

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India's Posture

Myanmar and India are part of the UNESCO that this is an institution that has as an objective made peaceful in human's mind.

Both of them has participation in the UNESCO but Myanmar is not actually helping to made this objective possible.
India has participation in the UNESCO but this country is contribuying to the finality and punishing to the trafficking in persons, the Indian authorities are protecting the victims for any kind of traffick activities.(9)

These are the arguments wich I am based on to assume that the posture of India about the violation of the human rigths in Myanmar is against:

1.- India is a country wich has problems with boys, gilrs, women and men are victims of trafficking in persons for prostitution and forced work finalities.
The Indian government authorities have punished to the traffickers, protect and rescue victims, and they have progress on the aplication of the law to defend their human rights.

2.-The situation in Myanmar is thar women, girls, boys and men are trafficated for prostitution and forced work finalities, to agriculture work, street sellers, and fish processing, etc. In Myanmar is not repecting the established law and the human rights.
Military officials have participated directly in acts of people explotation like prostitution, forced work, and illegal children recruitment.(8)

(8) Wolrd Factbook.

(9) La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO).

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What does Chile think about this problem in Myanmar?

The position of Chile is the same as the Aung San Suu Kyi´s position, they are opposed to the abuse of human rights in Myanmar, they are not agree with the abuses that this Asian country has over their society.
On behalf of the government of President Michelle Bachelet, the Chilean foreign ministry called for the immediate freedom of the brave Burmese fighter now living under house arrest.
"We urgently call on the authorities of Myanmar to enact immediate and unconditional freedom of Aung San Suu Kyi," said Chilean Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"Also,for the news about the poor health that the Nobel Prize,Aung San Suu Kyi, is living we urge the military junta that governs that country, to take all necessary measures to protect and ensure their physical and mental integrity," added The Chilean Foreign Ministry

*(10) Ministerio de Relaciones exteriores de chile; Gobierno de Chile rechaza arresto a Premio Nobel de la Paz (2009)

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Brazil's Intervention

Brazil is against the violation of the human rights in Myanmar because they suffer the same problem in their country. They know how difficult it is to make it stop.

During the 5th special session of the human rights council, Brazil was very concerned with Myanmar's human rights situation. The country believes that these sessions will open communication with Myanmar, with the help of the UN and the Human Rights Council.

The sessions should lead to international concentment to reach decisions that will bring solutions to the violations of human rights in Myanmar. (7)

(7) Human Rights Council; V Special Session; Human Rights In Myanmar; Geneva, October 2nd, 2007.

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Myanmar's Army

Myanmar army has 70,000 child-soldiers

Myanmar's army has an estimated 70,000 soldiers under 18 years of age, the largest number of child soldiers in the world, Human Rights Watch said in a report.
Children as young as 11 years old are being forcibly snatched off the streets and recruited into the army, which has an estimated 350,000 soldiers, the New York-based group said in a report on its website.
Myanmar's ruling junta denied the allegations: ‘The government finds it very difficult to understand on what basis it is making such claims, saying that 20 per cent of the national army is made up of underage children.’
Ms Jo Becker, advocacy director of the group's Children's Rights Division, said that Myanmar's record on child soldiers was ‘the worst in the world’.
The army uses ‘threats, intimidation and often violence to force young boys to become soldiers'. (6)

(6) Associate Press, The Straits Times, 17 October 2002

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