The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in United States Domestic and Foreign Policy You are a ten-year-old girl living in Uganda. Your clothes are dirty and you haven't eaten in two days. You are currently hiding under a rusty piece of metal from those people, the ones who go around picking up children sometimes younger than you to fight. You've heard stories about other children who have been kidnapped: stories of drugs, rape and abuse. You've heard of children your own age who have been drugged and sent to fight for their lives or turned into sex slaves for military officers. Everyone you know is gone and there's no one there to save you. All you want is someone you can count on. All you want is for someone to help you. This isn't just a fictional horror story. It is the sad reality for thousands of children in developing countries such as Uganda, Nigeria, Sudan and Somalia, among others. The plight of child soldiers is often not publicly acknowledged. They are often "invisible", as are many other innocent victims of human rights violations in developing countries around the world. Many of the human rights identified by the United Nations in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are fundamental to the well-being of every person. human being in every country in the world. Many of these rights included in the Declaration include, among many others, “the right to life, liberty and security of the person,…[the right to equality] before the law and [the right], without any discrimination, to equal protection of the law [and] against any discrimination.” (“Universal Declaration”). While the United States cannot dictate how governments in other countries control their citizens, it is critical that… middle of paper… 4. Network. April 30, 2014. This is an editorial by Doug Bandow, a writer for the CATO Institute's At Liberty, on why the United States should not get involved in conflicts in other countries. I chose to include it to provide examples of the opposite view."Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Declaration of Human Rights, Declaration of Human Rights, Bill of Human Rights, United Nations and Human Rights." United Nations News Center. UN. 10 December 1948. Web. 01 April 2014. It is a document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly as a declaration through which to measure and guarantee human rights worldwide. I chose to include it to provide examples of rights that are fundamental to the well-being of every human being in every country in the world.