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According to the Dr. Martin Luther King, “a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” The amount of funds being spent on weapons is increasing every year. Even though the majority of the military expenses occurred in the US due to its war on Iraq, there is an even increase in military expenses throughout the world.
In a developing country such as Nepal, the budget has allocated maximum funds for the military purpose in 2005. Majorities of the funds spent in military issues are directly related with purchasing more weapons for destruction. The effect of this is the decrease in funding for other issues which are much more important to society. The society can benefit much more greatly if the money spend in buying weapons was used for education. The state of public schools today around the world is full of crime and the standard of education had decreased in the past few years.
In developed countries, almost every week, you can hear the case of a child bringing a gun to school and shooting other school children. There are millions of children around the world who are deprived of normal childhood, they have to struggle to survive, and mal-nutrition is a serious defects child in developing countries face. Educational institutions need higher standards of education; public schools do not have proper funding so the students in those institutions cannot get proper education. There is scarcity of water and problem of droughts in many parts of the country, there is natural disasters occurring in every part of the world, billions and billions of people do not even get to eat a healthy meal once a day. But all these social issues are neglected and majority of the funding every nation receives is spent on building their military power and buying more and more weapons everyday.
Similarly, developing international mechanism and presser group for conflict resolution and respect of human rights are another ways to keep peaceful world. There is a lot of injustice happening in the world. It is clearly stated in the United Nation’s declaration of human rights that every individual should be treated equally. But there are still many issues, which tend to differentiate and treat a group superior to others. There are many people who are killed and treated badly due to discrimination of any sorts, be it religion or racial. Religious discrimination has led to thousands of Jews being massacred in the holocaust. There is a never stopping conflict going on in India and Pakistan between the Muslims and the Hindu. The African Americans are still isolated and looked down upon in the most developed country of the world, United States of America. Everyday people are dying in South Asian countries like India and Nepal due to racial discrimination. The rich and the elite always have looked down upon the poor. The poor and the unemployed have always been deprived of benefits that other people have used. The best solution to stop such conflicts and to guarantee that the concept of human rights is followed throughout the world, it is necessary to develop an international group which can give equality and justice to the citizens of the world.
The UN has initiated this effort of promoting human rights. This led to the establishment of Universal declaration of human rights by the United Nations in December 1948. The declaration promotes equality and the right for every human to live equally. But this declaration is not strong enough to enforce all that is stated. The declaration is old and needs to be updated too. Fewer nations are following the declaration of human rights and thus have led to conflicts and suppression of some people. There to resolve these conflicts present worldwide and to ensure that every one experiences human rights, it is necessary to develop an international mechanism, which is adopted by all the nations. Not only will this group have the power to empower those that have been suppressed and give them their rights, but will also have the power to punish those that violate human rights. This will lead to less conflict because everyone is treated equally and there is hardly any issue to blame one another.
Another significant point is that we should make forum for education, peace, advocacy, skills development and so on. Due to lack of forum, employment and opportunities, the youths are unengaged. Forum can help the engaged and encourage the youth, moreover there will be less chance for them to be involved in conflict. When the youths are employed then their minds will not be idle. This forum will help in peace building and peace keeping as well. Skills development programs are a must in today’s world. If the rural people are trained in certain skill development programs they can sustain their livelihood. Forum for advocacy aware women and they can get their right and fight for their rights.
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