One of the saddest displays of human right abuse is in the Russian orphanages. Thousand upon thousands of parentless children are regularly abused by the people that are suppose to care for them. Around thirty percent of these children die before the age of 18. These children never receive an education, and are literary reduced to a pile of skin and bones lying in their own filth. The healthy children are often beaten, assaulted, verbal abused, and publicly humiliated by the staff at the orphanages and older children.
Some orphans can recall being starved as a form of punishment.
Others are made to stand naked by windows or in cold dark rooms in the middle of winter. These orphans are also being deprived of their constitutional rights. In Article 7, section 1 of the Russian constitution states The Russian Federation is a social state whose policy is aimed at creating conditions ensuring a worthy life and free development of the individual. Free development and a worthy life is not by any means being tied to a bed and starved. Torture is another huge issue in Russia concerning human rights.