Human Rights Abuse

          In the world we live in, there are many flaws that are disturbing and heartbreaking.  Human Rights is "every person is entitled to certain rights, simply by the fact of being a human."Unfortunately, there are causes of Human Rights being abused in certain areas of the world. An example is in India where disabled women  and girls are locked and being "treated worse than animals" in horrific ways in mental hospitals and institutions. The question is should the US intervene with there are human rights abuses?
           In 2011, India had 2.21% of people who were disabled "including 1.5 million people (0.1 percent of the population) with intellectual disabilities and a mere 722,826 people (0.05 percent of the population) with psychosocial disabilities (such as schizophrenia or bipolar conditions)". In other words since India is large country, the females who are disabled are small amount but unfortunately they are "thrown under the bus"with help they need. The women and girls in India who are disabled should be having the support they need, but instead their families or people who are taking care of them place them in mental hospitals or institutions such as New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru and Mysore. The worst part is not that they are in these places that have a lack of hygiene, being put in a place that is overcrowded,  deal with harsh treatments. The saddest part is that they can not leave and even if you are walking down the street, the authorities have the right to take you if you are disabled and put you in an institutions with others who are in emotional and physical pain because their loved ones put them in there, being sexually assaulted without doing anything. It is heartbroken that these women are in a never ending nightmare but for people who are reading this now can only imagine what is happening but for these poor women, its their reality and its scary.
           The women in these hospitals and institutions are they had their rights taken away. The women and girls would not only be cleaned, squeezed altogether in small place but they would have terrible treatments. One way that the facilities would "treat" the patients is by using a certain method called electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Electroconvulsive therapy is a procedure that there are electric currents that go through the brain which would result the person to have seizures. There is a case of women who  is 45-year-old woman that has psychosocial disability who was placed an institution by her husband. She went through electroconvulsive therapy and she "would get a headache for days... When my medications was reduced, I started asking questions. Til then I was a vegetable. It was only many months later that I found was being given ECT. " This poor woman is only an example of  what the other females had to deal with and it is sickening that people would do this to women. Another tragic thing that exist in these facilities is that many of the women are sexually assaulted. In a case of only an 11 year old girl who is disabled stated that she was suffered physical violence were she lived in. She said that "the house aunty [staff member] who drops me to school hits me. She hits me here [in the institution] too. She slaps me hard with her hand."
           The most important thing is that the United States should take action with this issue. Of course, the United States should because there are so many women suffering this terrible event that it has to end. The US could be the women's  hope of escape their nightmare. India is just one example of Human Rights abuse in the world but the United States can make the first step into stopping it.

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