Human Rights In Nigeria Essay

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in the nation where will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by their content of their character.”(as cited in “I have a dream”, n.d.). This is one part of the famous speech given by Martin Luther King in 1963 during the march joined by more than hundred thousands of people protested of Civil Rights constitution, which is violated human rights. Human rights began in 539 B.C when the first king of ancient Persia, Cyrus the Great, defeated and took possession Babylon. He declared that every human being should be treated equally, which has right to believe in any god and all slaves are all free to go. A clay cylinder tablet which carved his declaration called Cyrus Cylinder.

Nevertheless, 61 percent of Nigerian are still living under poverty line which is less than one dollar a day, approximately 100 million people are lacking of money, food, shelter, cloth and medical cares. Kids are lacking of education caused by unemployment parents, many analyst predict that by the year of 2045 the unemployment rate will rise up up from 100 million to 200 million (Lghobor, 2013) . Education is also the major factor of poor 60 percent of students who graduated every year are unemployed because of low standard of education caused by government corruption and financial unmanagement. Corruption in Nigeria is normal more than over ten years partisan drain lots of money from exporting fuel approximately 2 million barrel a day which can feed every poor in Nigeria, and because of the growth of Nigeria economy all the rich are getting benefit and continue to getting richer meanwhile the poor cannot afford themselves and getting more worse until they are lacking of the basic needs. Boko Haram also involved in this situation because the Islamic militant group, Boko Haram was born in northeast and northwest are known as the poorest part of Nigeria so they protest in the violent way and killed of 250 people (Brock,