Human rights abuse

According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (generally accepted as the international standard for human rights), fundamental human rights are violated when:

• Cruel or unusual punishment is used on a person (such as torture or forms of extremely violent execution).
• A person is sold as or used as a slave.
• A certain race, creed, or group is denied recognition as a "person".
• Punishments are dealt arbitrarily or unilaterally, without a proper and fair trial.
• Citizens are forbidden to leave their country.
• Arbitrary interference into personal, or private lives by agents of the state.
• Men and women are not treated as equal.
• Different racial or religious groups are not treated as equal.
• Freedom of speech or religion are denied.
• Education is denied.
• The right to join a union is denied.

In practice, human rights abuses are rare in fully-democratic countries, and common in dictatorships or theocracies.

Many international non-governmental organizations such as Freedom House and Amnesty International monitor and condemn human rights abuses.

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