Everyone is entitled to human rights and to be respected.
Everyone’s individual, they have their own place in life
and they should be able to do whatever they want in life.
A human life is something important
and we should all be treated equally.
Whether the countries I can think about being the worst violators of human rights are true,
I don’t know, because I always think we're told by media,
like China at the moment, their human rights, the way they're treating Tibet,
conditions which have been imposed on people,
Afghanistan, Iraq... but whether they're true or not,
I don’t know, it's what media tell us.
Generally in the third world, because they haven't got
a civilised manner on things due to the depression in those countries.
You could go there and it's completely feral.
Countries which are corrupt, for example Russia.
I'm from Bosnia, so Bosnia. Anywhere you can pay off the police.
President Mugabe and all that.
He got in through an unfair voting system.
Iran is a country where some people would say there are no human rights,
but there are kids sometimes - there are a lot of issues which they don’t accept,
fornication for example, or sexual relationships outside of marriage.
So if you have a sexual relationship outside of marriage in a country like Iran
and you are discovered by the police, they're called the Revolutionary Guard,
they will immediately take action against you, you will probably end up in prison,
and if there are more people dropping complaints against you,
most likely they will execute you.
North Korea in general.
I've met people from there and go to school with some of them
and I think they have a difficult time with living and it's nothing to do with them,
it's government issues and they're dragged into it.
The media definitely make you more aware.
Whether they help the situation is another matter
but they do let people know what's going on.
They inform, educate and bring the message across to everyone.
The media always goes on about who doesn't have human rights,
and the way that human rights are being violated,
but they never tell people what human rights are
and how they can act to change the way those people are being treated.
It's always the charities and support groups that do that rather than the media.
It's something they should do as well.
It's our duty to know the truth about what's going on,
whether we take it any further than that is another matter,
we might have more pressing issues at home that we need to deal with first.
I'd say we're quite a developed country and our problems seem quite big to us
but if we compare them to other countries I'd say our problems are minute
and nothing like people who don't have enough to drink, clean water...
We can't let injustice or things that are not right take place if they are in other countries,
if there is serious injustice taking place, we do have to,
on a certain level, do something about it.
When I think about that on another level, if you're seeing someone being hurt,
or something bad is happening to someone,
you can't just walk away from the person and forget about them.
It's the same situation.