Basic Human Rights
No organization should be able to determine what is human in nature and what is not. Unless the organization is defending all the nature of humanity.
At the end of the 20th century my hope for the 21 century was for a change in humanity for a more empathic world.
According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created by the United Nations in 1948 to provide a global understanding of how to treat individuals, we have 30 basic human rights.
I heard of civil rights but, I had no idea what my human rights were, and even though the document has been around for 61 years, I know most people don’t.
We each own 30 basic human rights, based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Human Rights is a global term we hear often, but it is indefinable. So the question is what are human rights? “Rights” are things we are allowed to be, to do or to have, simply by being human. The definition of Rights is, a moral or legal entitlement to have or obtain something or to act in a certain way. That also bring up a totally different discussion on morals.
While morals differ from person to person. One's morals should not interfere with one's rights, if they do not hinder your rights. We need to educate the kids about human rights and how it’s our responsibility to teach them and spread the word, since human rights are not taught in the schools they need to be learned at home. Youth for Human Rights International
Here UN’s formation of basic human rights.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
We are all free and equal. We are all born free. We all have our own thoughts and ideas. We should all be treated in the same way.
Don’t discriminate. These rights belong to everybody, whatever our differences.
The right to life. We all have the right to life, and to live in freedom and safety.
No slavery – past and present. Nobody has any right to make us a slave. We cannot make anyone our slave.
No Torture. Nobody has any right to hurt us or to torture us.
We all have the same right to use the law. I am a person just like you!
We are all protected by the law. The law is the same for everyone. It must treat us all fairly.
Fair treatment by fair courts. We can all ask for the law to help us when we are not treated fairly.
No unfair detainment. Nobody has the right to put us in prison without a good reason and keep us there, or to send us away from our country.
The right to trial. If we are put on trial this should be in public. The people who try us should not let anyone tell them what to do.
Innocent until proven guilty. Nobody should be blamed for doing something until it is proven. When people say we did a bad thing we have the right to show it is not true.
The right to privacy. Nobody should try to harm our good name. Nobody has the right to come into our home, open our letters or bother us or our family without a good reason.
Freedom to move. We all have the right to go where we want in our own country and to travel as we wish.
The right to asylum. If we are frightened of being badly treated in our own country, we all have the right to run away to another country to be safe.
The right to a nationality. We all have the right to belong to a country.
Marriage and family. Every grown-up has the right to marry and have a family if they want to. Men and women have the same rights when they are married, and when they are separated.
Your own things. Everyone has the right to own things or share them. Nobody should take our things from us without a good reason.
Freedom of thought. We all have the right to believe in what we want to believe, to have a religion, or to change it if we want.
Free to say what you want. We all have the right to make up our own minds, to think what we like, to say what we think, and to share our ideas with other people.
Meet where you like. We all have the right to meet our friends and to work together in peace to defend our rights. Nobody can make us join a group if we don’t want to.
The right to democracy. We all have the right to take part in the government of our country. Every grown-up should be allowed to choose their own leaders.
The right to social security. We all have the right to affordable housing, medicine, education, and child care, enough money to live on and medical help if we are ill or old.
Workers’ rights. Every grown-up has the right to do a job, to a fair wage for their work, and to join a trade union.
The right to play. We all have the right to rest from work and to relax.
A bed and some food. We all have the right to a good life. Mothers and children, people who are old, unemployed or disabled, and all people have the right to be cared for.
The right to education. Education is a right. Primary school should be free. We should learn about the United Nations and how to get on with others. Our parents can choose what we learn.
Culture and copyright. Copyright is a special law that protects one’s own artistic creations and writings; others cannot make copies without permission. We all have the right to our own way of life and to enjoy the good things that “art,” science and learning bring.
A free and fair world. There must be proper order so we can all enjoy rights and freedoms in our own country and all over the world.
Our responsibilities. We have a duty to other people, and we should protect their rights and freedoms.
Nobody can take away these rights and freedoms from us.
WOW! Heavy, but it’s a start, think that’s long try reading the entire document (Universal Declaration of Human Rights ).
A lot of the rights list seem inline with civil right. To me the whole thing can be summed up in one simple sentence. Everyone has the right to do, act, or say whatever they care to, as long as it does not hinder another human’s right to exist. A person's sexuality, or their views on race or God, does not hinder your existence. You may feel hurt, or resentful, but those are your feeling to deal with in an empathic and human way. Yelling, and name calling may be quite human, but not empathic. Often it is how we process our feelings that is hindering our existence.
In summary, for a typical human of 70 kg, consists of roughly 7*1027atoms (that's a 7 followed by 27 zeros!) Another way of saying this is, seven billion billion billion. That is it. A human being. Plain and simple.
SEVEN BILLION BILLION BILLION, that a lot of atoms. Now think how many are in the universe.
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