HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ARAB WORLD UNDER THE WILL FOR CHANGE
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Abstract
The people of our Arab homeland have endured foreign colonialism—French, British, Italian, and Spanish—that inflicted every form of violation against their human rights, which are prohibited by divine laws and civil statutes, such as murder, torture, detention, displacement, forced exile, and oppression. Their dignity was trampled, and they faced racism in its most horrific forms.
Upon achieving independence after revolutions that claimed the lives of their best sons for the sake of freedom and dignity, these nations were subjected to authoritarian regimes that stifled their freedom, restricted their thoughts and opinions, and squandered opportunities for advancement and development towards a life of freedom, justice, equality, and human dignity.
Consequently, these peoples aspire with all their will to change this reality, either through foreign intervention as seen in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, or through internal popular revolutions aimed at changing the regime, as in Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, and Algeria—phenomena known as the Arab Spring.
Did these revolutions achieve their goals of freedom and human dignity?
And did globalization assist in this?
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