Human Rights/Ethnic

Differences
Alex Krawitz

Adam McKinlay

As we know, there are not many human rights in Russia

They have the least amount of human rights
All the leaders had different styles
But none of them matched the human rights of other countries
Police authorities can not do anything about it

According to the domestic press,

Russia human rights are bad none the less.
Russia has strong policies against homosexuals
Violence has broke out over this issue
Many people are against sexual orientation

Russia has no freedom of speech

People can be imprisoned for up to three years
They are not allowed to speak publically about any religion
If so, they could be imprisoned for 5 years
People want these laws changed

People that oppose the human rights are prosecuted

It caused many strikes to break out
They protested work conditions, threats by police, and lack of sleep
Many people ended up going to jail because of riots
Protests break out because of refusing their rights

Through out history, people dealt with absolute monarchs

Nicholas II was an absolute monarch
An absolute monarch controls everything in society
Absolute monarchs gave citizens very few rights
They made sure Russian citizens knew who the actual ruler was

They have limited ability to pain treatments

Thousands of people died because of less rights to doctors.
People were arrested because of illegally controlling substances,
It helped to help a cancer patient through the final stage of cancer.
This is an issue that too many people are suffering from

One of the good things about Russia is their Disability Rights

Russia has taken several high-profile steps to treat them better
Although they do try to help they have a lack of ramps and other things
Russia gives them opportunities to be in closed institutions for their
own help
People arent willing to hire them and dont see them equal in Russia

Russia is against migrant

Moscow police launched a discriminatory campaign against irregular
migrants
Several thousand went into custody
Unfortunately some were expelled and some were released
The campaign spread from Moscow through Russia

Back then when the tsars ruled Russia

The peasants and serfs were treated like slaves
They were forced to work long hours in factories
They were not aloud to make consumer goods
They had the least amount of rights

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