Egypt climate/human rights

Human rights has always been a hard topic to cover. As humans we all have the same rights, but that never applies to everyone. Depending on the country, religion and many other factors people see rights completely different.  Since the stepping down of their president in 2011, the people of Egypt have felt that they have their country back slowly until recent times.

Central Security Forces (CSF) takes aim at a crowd of retreating protesters

Nile Delta sea level rise

   "Since July 2013, more than 3,600 people, including civilians, insurgents, and security forces, have died as a result of the conflict in North Sinai" This is a staggering number and it is only growing. The Egyptian armed force have taken for matters into their hands and the government releases little information about such operations. The armed forces have been destroying homes near the Gaza strip, they are not using technology taught by United sates, in which they were trained for in 2008. This is described as "often-indiscriminate counterinsurgency campaign." This is displacing many citizens out of their homes and lives without much warning. Many Egyptians have many restrictions and never had the freedom to practice their choosing.  "The widespread and systematic nature of these killings, and the evidence Human Rights Watch collected, suggests that the killings were part of a policy to use lethal force against largely unarmed protesters, making them probable crimes against humanity."

Climate has to do a lot with human rights. As proven in the past, when climate gets concerning restrictions typically occur. Recently Egypt has a concern with the Nile River because that is their main source of water and the more people continue to use it, it will continue to get lower. "Low self-sufficiency in basic food supplies in Egypt is another risk posed by climate change to Egypt’s food security." The problem continues as temperatures rise, the waster evaporates more, that not only eliminates water and food sources, not just for Egypt, but for other countries that use the Nile to survive off. Food and water are vital to ones surviving , along with one's human rights. When resources get low, restrictions rise to try to sustain what is left.  Drought, have caused crop failures, increased food costs and migration from parched, rural areas to Middle East urban centers. Climate change has acted as a “threat multiplier” on existing social stressors, especially food instability, leading to civil unrest. Everything is a correlation, when things fall into place everything goes well and when things are out of place, it causes unrest and limitation to ones freedom. Egypt is a time of progress, but they still continue to struggle with some basic human rights that many others have. The changing climate, will cause issues unless they decide to really do something to sustain their one major source of life.

Ethnocentrism is the tendency of the individuals and cultures to view themselves as well as their environment around them from the perspectives of their own culture, values and beliefs. Noor main points about about going beyond Ethnocentrism are the importance of living with cultures that have different fundamentals of human rights and liberties. The importance of not thinking ones culture is better than everyone else. Mainly that no one should get their rights ripped away because of cultural differences.