During the Enlightenment, the influential English philosopher John Locke wrote that all men had the right to life, liberty and property. These ideas illustrated an important attempt at reform regarding human rights issues. Likewise, throughout history humanity has faced countless conflicts over the looming question: “What rights are human beings obligated to?” Many civilizations throughout history have given different answers to this question. Apparently, historical civilizations have had a variety of rights granted to people. The answer to the question is by no means an easy solution to arrive at. Thousands of years of reform following past reforms have accomplished many tasks in creating better conditions for oppressed people, but human beings still face major rights conflicts in the present. Conflict after conflict plagues humankind in an almost endless stream of rights violations. Today, major human rights issues often concern callous human labor, the cruel actions of soldiers, and debates about how the treatment of criminals should be handled. These issues, however, are not just issues of the present, but also concerns that accompany us. for what seems like humanity's entire existence. Hard human work has been part of society for millennia. Apparently, as soon as humans could force others to do work for them, they took advantage. Thousands of examples of slavery, such as the transatlantic slave trade, have spanned history with numerous accounts of humans taking advantage of each other. The cruel acts of soldiers have played out no differently throughout history. Soldiers often overreact to situations like the events of Bloody Sunday and, no doubt, also... half paper... and frivolous war crimes. More than 1,775 are accused of crimes and more than 500 are still alive to face trial. Various crimes against humanity include rape, arson and even massacres of civilians, and investigators say there is overwhelming evidence to prove the case. Similarly, another article from the United States discusses how human rights courts blamed Mexico for the soldiers' actions and misuse. Valentina Rosendo, a Mexican woman, was raped and beaten in February 2002 when eight soldiers came to ask about the whereabouts of a suspect. Likewise, Ines Fernandez was raped because she did not answer the soldiers' questions because she did not speak Spanish. In both cases, the soldiers' actions were seemingly unjustified and completely unacceptable. However, despite the charges against the soldiers, in both cases no one was punished.