Violations Of The Declaration Of Human Rights During The Salem Witch Trials

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trials was article five, which states that "everyone has the right to
recognition everywhere as a person before the law". Many thought of the
women accused of practicing witchcraft to be diabolic and inhuman ; in fact,
they were thought of human figures of the devil. This would clearly
interfere with the judge´s veredict and it would be almost impossible for
the victimis to save themselves from being condemned to death. If these
victims of whom most were in their late fifties, had been seen as people
who are just like us, they would have been saved from such destiny.
Article Six is also a great, and maybe the clearest, example to
prove the point of violated human rights. This article says "all are equal
before the law and entitled without any discrimination to equal protection
before the law. All are entitled to protection against any discrimination
in violation this Declaration and against any incitement to such
discrimination". In the witch trials of Salem, it was ...

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