'Fights' for democracy keep USA away from the fight for human rights

"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."These are the first few famous words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Today, we can find information on every topic that can come to mind. Not too many though care about controversial issues such as human rights and how they are observed around the world. It is too complex and distant for many people in the developed countries. However, even those who can do something, as our politicians, don't. We, who enjoy those rights, take them for granted, while in some countries people still fight for them.

The freedom of speech and information are two of our many freedoms. People in some countries though don't have the freedom of information. This is a perennial issue in many countries around the world, yet nobody is doing anything. If you type in human rights in any search engine, you will probably end up finding hundreds of non-profit organizations, which have been 'fighting' to bring peace and equality in the world. Still, in countries like China, for example, people's pursuit for information has been censored, and in North Korea people do not even have access to internet and cell phones are banned. We cannot imagine our lives without internet and cell phones. But, in these countries some sick minded leaders control the way people live, and the western democracies do not do anything to stop this madness.

China is one of the largest countries and economics. China produces many goods we use every day, the USA, and other western countries 'use' the cheap labor in China, but do not care about what is happening inside this country. The question is why? According to globalissues.org, "US diplomats were influential in drawing up the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, yet the USA has not always put (some of their own) words into action." This is obvious if we think about the health care system here, where it looks like the US sees the health care as privilege, not as a basic human right (just now we have acquired a more humane one). So, there are human rights' problems in America as well. When I start thinking about them, my head start spinning uncontrollably, let alone thinking about other countries' problems. It is too much to bear that is for sure, but in my country, we say, "Little streams make great rivers." Thus, if everyone raises a voice, just once, it can probably be heard all over the world.

If the democratic governments around the world do not do anything to end the dictatorships in some countries, then the people are those who have to change things. In its core, everything depends on the masses. However, when it is a dictatorship, supported by a huge army as it is in North Korea, it is very difficult for the people to revolt.

The thing is that the world has gone so global already, that we can only wonder how come there are still there kinds of dictatorships where people are denied the right of information and free speech. Why a great country as the USA, which sends armies around the world to defend democracy and to create new democratic governments, cannot make China get rid of communism? The US can start a preemptive war on terrorism, send the army in Iraq to fight Saddam Hussein's regime and can send troops to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan to bring peace to a bloody and underdeveloped part of the world, but cannot help bring the freedom of information and speech in China. In the same manner the USA can send an army to North Korea and force down this dictatorship there, where people are being send to concentration camps and killed in gas chambers if talked against the government, but it does not do it.

There are perhaps many reasons for that inactivity. Two are very possible. First, it is may be fear of North Korea's nuclear weapons. Still the US cannot be afraid of a country the size of Missouri. Regarding China, the fear is different; it is that if the Chinese become such free thinkers, China can become greater than the States. The second reason that applies more to the attitude towards North Korea is that there aren't many natural resources the US could use. There is oil in the Middle East, so it is worth the effort and time repeating that it is for fighting terrorism. Even though the USA is losing respect the deeper it involves itself in terror wars, it continues to do so. This is an undeniable proof of the real motives behind those wars.

Consequently, the human rights problem has not been addressed, as it should have been, and the US, as the supposed greatest country in the world, has not taken proper steps to help support basic freedoms in some countries such as the freedom of information and speech, which are among the most important today.