Human Rights In Libya: During And After Gaddafi

Violations of human rights are committed by all countries with varying degrees of severity. Most states, especially third world countries, openly violate human rights principles against their own citizens and without an apology. Other countries, such as the US and Britain, as it will be demonstrated in this article, violate their human rights laws but mainly against foreign individuals. Such violations are always justified for being committed for national interest causes.

Countries are usually defensive when they are faced with their records of human rights violations, and they attempt to point to the positive aspects of their records, such as granting minorities rights and instituting the sensation of political enfranchisement but only through quasi parliamentarians appointed by the regime. Sometimes, countries refer to other countries' corrupt records as a way of deflecting criticism of their abusive policies.