Help...government problem!?

Question

Despite global media attention, protests, and boycotts, many governments around the world continue to perpetrate and tolerate human rights abuses. How could the U.S. government help address this problem?

Answer 1

Honestly:  It's not our job to govern or intervene in sovereign nations. We need to mind our own business until we solve our own social ills.

Answer 2

By leaving Iraq, and focusing on other issues. By the way, we could have simply pushed the Myanmar government aside, and provided aid in spite of them when they refused. Isn't saving lives what it's all about? So that makes us co-conspirators if you ask me. Why waste time in this world respecting a feeble little government that cares more about its own pride than helping its citizens in a time of desperate need?

Answer 3

Instead of using the military and weapons to leverage power over sovereign nations... the US needs to focus on removing human rights violations through the use of diplomatic relations.

Vote for Obama 2008!

Answer 4

We could start by not permitting human rights abuses by the U.S. government. While guantanamo bay is open we cannot tell anyone not to commit human rights abuse. We must set an example by closing the base and reinstating habeus corpus. All prisoners deserve a fair trial, terrorist or not, and if we led the way in terms of a fair government then other people would follow.