Good evening/morning/day/ (whichever applies)!
Just when you were about to think you deserve a break, here is the next human right:
We're Always Innocent Till Proven Guilty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggWG9QpZpM
So here we go on this right in Int Base style:
One day we find out that one of the mildest never-to-hurt-a-thing guy from the Estates branch is sent to the RPF. Not clear why. Does not fully make sense either. But things like that do happen, and hell, it is bad enough outside the RPF to make you forget about it. So time goes by and more time goes by, and one day he is back. Briefing to go with it is that he asked for his assignment to be checked into, and it was found he should never have been sent there in the first place. So does he get an apology or some form of redress? No, but now he may stay and be happy that he does not have to go to pieces in Happy Valley for something he has never done…
Or another much milder one of my own. Smack in the middle of an “evolution” after no sleep for 3 days in a row I was in a meeting with some 15 other staff and execs to work out how the rest was going to roll out. In walks one of the few execs that had the ugly habit of enjoying power and pain and starts screaming right upon entry: You want to know why you are all here trying to make this release happen and work you asses off??? I just found proof that this staff member (points at me) has been sitting on the completed material for a week now!! So THIS is why we are not going to make it!! (Just to get things straight, this sayso was all the proof ever produced on the matter).
My senior looks at me, horrified as it behoves a good on-purpose senior when a productive on-purpose exec says something like that, gets red as a beet and starts yelling: Why did you do that? Now if you are idiot enough after that many years there, like I was, you attempt to answer. But answering is in fact forbidden, it is another crime called backflash to a senior, and so that resulted in a roomful of people chanting BACKFLASH! and the properly horrified senior creaming OUT!!! Five laps! (Meaning now I go run around the block five times and report back when I'm done). Just what I wished to get a chance to do after no sleep for 3 days…
And to make the episode complete: I did have hard evidence to the contrary, but nobody was interested. Filed it with the appropriate authorities and nothing ever happened because the police forces there would never interfere with the “instant justice” administered no matter right or wrong (and just by the nature of the beast, usually wrong).
Incidents of this type may be called various things in other parts of the world… but I doubt there is one place that qualifies them as upholding human rights.