Abstract:
his research intends to analyze human rights violations and social conditions
which affect human rights violations portrayed in the novel “Half the Sky” by
Wudunn and Kristof.
The research used descriptive qualitative research method through
sociological study. There are two sources of data they are primary data and
secondary data. The primary data was taken from the novel “Half the Sky”.
Meanwhile, the secondary data were taken from journal, thesis, and article. The
writer used a sociological study to describe the social conditions that affect human
rights in the novel “Half the Sky”.
The result of this research, the writer find the author‟s way to portrayed the
kinds of human rights and the social conditions which affect human rights
violations in the novel “Half the Sky” by Wudunn and Kristof. From the finding
of data, showing that Wudunn and Kristof portrayed 4 violations of human rights,
they were rape, trafficking, prostitution, and Kidnapping. The social condition
which affect human rights violations occur due to low economic conditions so that
mothers would raise their daughters and sold them to prostitution brothels was
instead been sold into a brothel to be used as a sex slave, beside that social
conditions of the Ethiopia people who have a tradition of married the perpetrators
of kidnapping and rape crimes with their victims, so that men who did not have
enough money to pay the dowry preferred to kidnap and rape women to make it
easier for men to marry women who are victims of crime.
