0. Take the Quiz: do you know about rights? My score was 12/41! Waugh! I didn’t think that I had this low level of knowledge in this area.
1. What are human rights? Human rights are the list of rights of the humans leaving aside the race, the sex, the sexual orientation, the hometown and political ideologies which protect the dignity and the life.
2. When did human rights start? The humans rights are a concept which had been in the history of humans, and it have been searched for all the people. The body who bring together all these rights was the UN, and it had been approved in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, on the 10th of December 1948.
3. Why were they created? They were created to solve the big troubles which causes the globalization, like slavery and social problems, and also to apply justice for all the humans.
4. How many human rights are there? It contains 30 articles of rights.
5. Which human right were you not familiar with? I think there aren’t any human rights that I’m not familiar with it, because all defend moral rights that I think they are necessary in the life to be in peace and in love. They aren’t a joke, for this I think that all of them are important.
6. Choose one human right and discuss:
- Watch the video of your human right
- Is it fully respected in your country today? Justify with news, comments, studies on the subject (cite the links of your information sources)
The right of NO SLAVERY I think it’s one of the most important from the list, because nowadays we have big troubles with children who are slaves of industries from the first world who went to the third world to profit of their poor situation. Nowadays there are people forced to labour and prostitution, and they are slaves from the capitalism system. There are children depending from the industries and also the procuress is the owners of the rights of the people who sell their body for sex, taking a only view point of the first world...
- Do you know if it has been respected in the past? Why or why not?
I think that in the past the slavery was really normal, usually there were slaves for the fieldworks, and they lived in the worst conditions that we can think. There was a big progress when slavery becomes prohibited, but nowadays we have examples of slavery, and that’s for what we have to fight really hard.
There were slaves in Sudan, in Togo (child slaves), in Burma (slaves of procuress), in Saudi Arabia...
It’s a sad situation that there are so many countries with these troubles...
7. Are Humans rights relevant in the world today? why?
Of course! Human rights are essential in the life of a person to be happy, there is so much inequality in the world, we can’t control our wishes and if we can have more that what we need, we take it, without the consent of the people who need it to live. For this, we need a regulation which has to moderate this instinct.
