Monday, December 12, 2016

Human Rights Tortue Blog

On December 5th 2016, The Red Cross opened up a poll about torture. They opened the poll to see what Americans thought about torture. The poll had one simple question is torture okay or not. Well 46% of Americans say that torture is acceptable. Which is a big human right violation. Human Rights are right that you have as a human being. One of your human rights is “No Torture”. Which states that “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”. 46% of Americans disregard this human right and say that torture is acceptable. 33% of Americans also say that torture is “a part of war”. Meaning that if US Army takes a POW then they could torture that prisoner to give them information about their enemies. Meaning that the US Army could violate human rights due to them being in a war.
     But not all is bad. In the same poll 54% of Americans find that torture is wrong. Meaning that these people have educated themselves about these things. They also know that torture is a human right violation. But not all things are good. The Red Cross poll also showed that the poll was a lower proportion than any other country polled. Israel had 44% of people said that torture is acceptable and Palestine had 35% of people say that torture is acceptable. Meaning that we have the most percent of people that say that torture is an acceptable than any other country in the world.


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