If you or a family member was a victim of a human rights violation, what will you do? What do you think will happen? How would the general public react on it? Why or why not?
Questions like such would probably come out every time we discuss about rights of human beings especially if it is violated. There are things that we thought we already knew about or a little of it but we still need to discover and know better about the issue.
According to Article one of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” But what do we really know about human rights and what are these?
We have been talking about human rights but many of us did not fully understand what is it all about and we also often just cry for justice on human rights violations and abuses without acting on it. In this issue of The NORSUnian, let’s educate ourselves and others more about human rights. Read on…
Human rights is
Amnesty International a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights explained what human rights is. They have detailed human rights as set of standards that guarantee a life suitable to a rational human being. It has basic and minimum standards that everybody is entitled to like protecting one’s dignity. It also guarantees the development and wholeness of an individual with the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace where people are empowered to change their lives and the society.
How can an individual determine that it is a human right? For that, the group has related the following characteristics of human rights that we have to be aware of:
Inherent. A child with innocence is born with it and one has already known if it is violated. It does not have to be written down on papers and documents or even have to be enacted and ratified. It is there, present before an individual because it is a human right.
Universal. Human rights do not stop to one place or two alone but will be applied anywhere else in the world at anytime. What other countries are applying on their rights as human beings, it should also be of the same rate anywhere else on the globe. It also does not matter whether you’re an American or a Filipino, or an Asian or a European.
Indivisible. Rights of an individual should be enjoyed in its full range. One has given the opportunity to be free from intervention. If a person likes to express feelings of dismay or any alike, one has all the things one wanted to express because it is a right.
Inalienable. One important fact on human rights is its worthiness. It is very essential to a person’s life because it could not be taken away. Rights can be limited to put into practice unless it has offended other’s right for that matter. Human rights are absolute and undisputable.
The rights
Individuals are entitled to certain rights simply because of the fact that they are human beings. Rights like to live in an environment where people exist, to befriended, to give opinions, to be compensated, to suffrage, and others. But those rights are mere ones, there are still a lot more of these.
If human beings are not well versed about human rights, abuses such as discrimination, oppression, maltreatment, injustice, alike could arise to either sex. On the other hand, understanding what everyone’s rights are, would lead to freedom, justice, and peace.
But what makes individuals as human beings? The Amnesty International shared the different characteristics of such that include physical, biological, social, emotional, rational or intellectual, spiritual, sexual, and cultural aspects. They added that if these characteristics are denied to an individual, it doesn’t make a person a lesser human being but it will just degrade one’s dignity.
Talking about human dignity, the movement extended some facts that it is about the wholeness of a person that makes him or her human. They further stated that it constitutes all the characteristics of human being. Dignity must also be essential so that individuals can be identified to be fully human and it is common to all that makes everybody equal.
According to wikipedia.org, people knew human rights like that of the civil and political rights; and economic, social, and cultural rights. Individuals usually thought of the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the law. Moreover, they also included the right to participate in culture, to be treated with respect and dignity, and the right to food, work, and education.
On the other hand, youthforhumanrights.org suggests 30 rights of human beings that include to be born free and equal; should not be discriminated; right to life; free from slavery; from suffering; rights wherever; equality before the law; protection of the law; no unfair detainment; right to trial; innocent till proven guilty; right to privacy; freedom to move; right to seek a safe place to live; to a nationality; marriage and family; to own things; freedom of thought; of expression; right to public assembly; to democracy; social security; workers' rights; to play; food and shelter for all; to education; copyright; a fair and free world; responsibility; and no one can take away one’s human rights.
Responsibilities along
With recent issues arising from human rights violations to abuses like political and extrajudicial killings, many individuals are questioning the foundation and strength of human rights protection and law in the Philippines. With these issues, it has already been subjected to controversy and concern.
Being aware of one’s human rights comes with the responsibility of developing and protecting dignity and that of others. According to Amnesty International, the state has obligations on human rights to perform and execute before its constituents. These are the following:
Respect. Rights of individuals should be respected like of the others. It requires the government to refrain from interfering especially if it concerns matters on decision-making and personal choice. The state should not also judge or of any kind to any person like that of gender preference and other related concerns.
Protect. The government should protect its people from any kind of abuse. Prevention on human rights violations should be done anywhere and everywhere at anytime. Issues like rights violated by others involved likely occur but if the state works with the protection of every individual, abridging rights will not take place.
Promote. Human rights should be promoted by making campaigns and activities about issues concerning the people and its rights. It is also the job of the government to conduct such actions and operations to provide individuals the knowledge and understanding all about rights of human.
Fulfill. This time, the state has to accomplish actions on human rights by taking appropriate undertakings including the legislative, administrative, budgetary, judicial and other measures towards its full realization. By implementing said sections that concerns rights of humans, individuals could exercise different rights properly without intervention.
In the main stream, human rights do not only include the concerned but the people in the environment as well. We might not directly be affected but humans as we are; we have to share a spare of our time for campaigns on issues concerning rights of human beings. Well, we should not wait until one or many of our family member’s rights will be abused and eventually be violated.
Questions like such would probably come out every time we discuss about rights of human beings especially if it is violated. There are things that we thought we already knew about or a little of it but we still need to discover and know better about the issue.
According to Article one of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” But what do we really know about human rights and what are these?
We have been talking about human rights but many of us did not fully understand what is it all about and we also often just cry for justice on human rights violations and abuses without acting on it. In this issue of The NORSUnian, let’s educate ourselves and others more about human rights. Read on…
Human rights is
Amnesty International a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights explained what human rights is. They have detailed human rights as set of standards that guarantee a life suitable to a rational human being. It has basic and minimum standards that everybody is entitled to like protecting one’s dignity. It also guarantees the development and wholeness of an individual with the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace where people are empowered to change their lives and the society.
How can an individual determine that it is a human right? For that, the group has related the following characteristics of human rights that we have to be aware of:
Inherent. A child with innocence is born with it and one has already known if it is violated. It does not have to be written down on papers and documents or even have to be enacted and ratified. It is there, present before an individual because it is a human right.
Universal. Human rights do not stop to one place or two alone but will be applied anywhere else in the world at anytime. What other countries are applying on their rights as human beings, it should also be of the same rate anywhere else on the globe. It also does not matter whether you’re an American or a Filipino, or an Asian or a European.
Indivisible. Rights of an individual should be enjoyed in its full range. One has given the opportunity to be free from intervention. If a person likes to express feelings of dismay or any alike, one has all the things one wanted to express because it is a right.
Inalienable. One important fact on human rights is its worthiness. It is very essential to a person’s life because it could not be taken away. Rights can be limited to put into practice unless it has offended other’s right for that matter. Human rights are absolute and undisputable.
The rights
Individuals are entitled to certain rights simply because of the fact that they are human beings. Rights like to live in an environment where people exist, to befriended, to give opinions, to be compensated, to suffrage, and others. But those rights are mere ones, there are still a lot more of these.
If human beings are not well versed about human rights, abuses such as discrimination, oppression, maltreatment, injustice, alike could arise to either sex. On the other hand, understanding what everyone’s rights are, would lead to freedom, justice, and peace.
But what makes individuals as human beings? The Amnesty International shared the different characteristics of such that include physical, biological, social, emotional, rational or intellectual, spiritual, sexual, and cultural aspects. They added that if these characteristics are denied to an individual, it doesn’t make a person a lesser human being but it will just degrade one’s dignity.
Talking about human dignity, the movement extended some facts that it is about the wholeness of a person that makes him or her human. They further stated that it constitutes all the characteristics of human being. Dignity must also be essential so that individuals can be identified to be fully human and it is common to all that makes everybody equal.
According to wikipedia.org, people knew human rights like that of the civil and political rights; and economic, social, and cultural rights. Individuals usually thought of the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the law. Moreover, they also included the right to participate in culture, to be treated with respect and dignity, and the right to food, work, and education.
On the other hand, youthforhumanrights.org suggests 30 rights of human beings that include to be born free and equal; should not be discriminated; right to life; free from slavery; from suffering; rights wherever; equality before the law; protection of the law; no unfair detainment; right to trial; innocent till proven guilty; right to privacy; freedom to move; right to seek a safe place to live; to a nationality; marriage and family; to own things; freedom of thought; of expression; right to public assembly; to democracy; social security; workers' rights; to play; food and shelter for all; to education; copyright; a fair and free world; responsibility; and no one can take away one’s human rights.
Responsibilities along
With recent issues arising from human rights violations to abuses like political and extrajudicial killings, many individuals are questioning the foundation and strength of human rights protection and law in the Philippines. With these issues, it has already been subjected to controversy and concern.
Being aware of one’s human rights comes with the responsibility of developing and protecting dignity and that of others. According to Amnesty International, the state has obligations on human rights to perform and execute before its constituents. These are the following:
Respect. Rights of individuals should be respected like of the others. It requires the government to refrain from interfering especially if it concerns matters on decision-making and personal choice. The state should not also judge or of any kind to any person like that of gender preference and other related concerns.
Protect. The government should protect its people from any kind of abuse. Prevention on human rights violations should be done anywhere and everywhere at anytime. Issues like rights violated by others involved likely occur but if the state works with the protection of every individual, abridging rights will not take place.
Promote. Human rights should be promoted by making campaigns and activities about issues concerning the people and its rights. It is also the job of the government to conduct such actions and operations to provide individuals the knowledge and understanding all about rights of human.
Fulfill. This time, the state has to accomplish actions on human rights by taking appropriate undertakings including the legislative, administrative, budgetary, judicial and other measures towards its full realization. By implementing said sections that concerns rights of humans, individuals could exercise different rights properly without intervention.
In the main stream, human rights do not only include the concerned but the people in the environment as well. We might not directly be affected but humans as we are; we have to share a spare of our time for campaigns on issues concerning rights of human beings. Well, we should not wait until one or many of our family member’s rights will be abused and eventually be violated.
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