Human Rights Should Be Universal

The United Nations currently keeps a list of 30 basic humans rights in a document called “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights”[4] and it does a good job of providing an ideal list of necessary rights. This is too large a list to copy, but the Civic & Citizenship website summarizes each rights.[5] However, this is still far too much. One could easily summarize this down, at least for current purposes, to a couple of them. “Article 1: Everyone is born free and equal in dignity and with rights. Article 2: You should never be discriminated against for any reason. Rights belong to all people, whatever our differences. Article 3:Everyone has the rights to life, liberty and security. Article 5: No‐one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. And finally, Article 9: No‐one shall be subject to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.” This is the easiest way to simplify the basic human rights. It essentially boils down to “All humans are equal, should be treated as such, and should not be punished wrongfully.” Hitler, through his persecution of Jews, broke all of these and

Basic human rights is an ideal that has been discussed for centuries, but yet is and has been a problem all of these years. Because Germany stripped Jews of these rights, the world witnessed one of the biggest tragedies in the world. Germany named this event the Holocaust, a mass extermination of over 5 million Jews. After this bitter time was over, world leaders then came together and developed a document called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to ensure the world would never experience something so horrid ever again; to protect future Jews and the entirety of the human race.

On a global political stand point there was a uniting of ideas and governments; what we know today as the United Nations (UN). One of the main ideas which the UN has grown up around is ‘The individual possess rights simply by virtue of being Human’ (The Universal Declaration of human rights); which was adopted by the general assembly in 10th December 1948. This statement is reflect in the core principles

The idea that there are rights that are applicable to all of humanity originated during the eighteenth century in the Enlightenment and the American and French Revolutions. The atrocities committed during World War II, as well as the Four Freedoms, forcefully raised the issue of human rights in the postwar world. The victorious Allies put numerous German officials on trial before special courts at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity. This was the first time that individuals were held directly accountable to the international community for violation of human rights. The trials ended up sentencing many Nazi officials to prison terms and the execution of ten leaders. In 1948, the UN General Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It identified a broad range of rights to be enjoyed by people everywhere, including freedom of speech, religious toleration, and protection against arbitrary government, as well as social and economic entitlements like the right to an adequate standard of living and access to housing, education, and medical care. The document had no enforcement mechanism. However, it set the core principle that a nation’s treatment of its own citizens should be subject to outside evaluation. This slowly became part of the language in which freedom was discussed. After the Cold War ended, the idea of human rights played an increasingly prominent role in world affairs, but during the 1950s, Cold War imperatives shaped the

According to the United Nations, human rights are defined as “rights inherent to all human beings, whatever their nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. Humans all equally entitled to human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible.”

When Hitler came to power, many things changed. After World War I, the German economy was very unstable. This was when

With the depression on top of the memory of World War I and the humiliation that brought to their country; the Germans weren’t very supportive or confident in their government. which was exactly what Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi party) needed to get their foot in the door as a new possible ruler of Germany. Hitler was an amazing speaker, who could easily convince everyone he was a better option for their country at the time. He promised a better life out of the depression, and that he could turn Germany into the glorious country it really was. He made sure to catch the attention of everyone in the country from the extremely rich to the simple storeowners and everyone in between. The Nazi party had a rapid rise to fame, and Hitler was soon appointed chancellor, many Germans thought they had finally found their new savior who was going to save their country once and for all. But they would all soon find out they had made a huge

Shortly after WWI, Germany’s economy took a big hit and their country was facing a financial crisis. Hitler and his party were coming to power and they wanted their people to stay calm even

After World War I, Germany was in bad shape economically, politically, and socially. The Weimar Republic

Germany had very low employment rates in this time and it made it even harder to get back to a stable economy. In this time a lot of people had no jobs so this also did not help Germany because companies were going out of business. This directly led to the decline of Germany's economy. When having no business’s running the country as no money coming in and can not send anything out.

Unfortunately, by giving away most of their profit and produce, and paying for a war they lost, Germany wasn’t left in a good position to deal with the global economic down-turn that was the Great Depression. Workers were being underpaid which lead to strikes, causing civil and international uproar. In an attempt to offset social unrest, the German government printed additional currency. Hoping to settle the protesting and meet payment requirements. This solution was impractical and short-lived as it caused hyperinflation and effectively ruined Germany’s

The post-World War 1 era saw multiple countries thrown into a deep-seated economic depression that they had not yet experienced and Germany was one of those grief stricken countries because they had lost World War 1. Having lost the war to England and France, Germany

The doctrine of human rights were created to protect every single human regardless of race, gender, sex, nationality, sexual orientation and other differences. It is based on human dignity and the belief that no one has the right to take this away from another human being. The doctrine states that every ‘man’ has inalienable rights of equality, but is this true? Are human rights universal? Whether human rights are universal has been debated for decades. There have been individuals and even countries that oppose the idea that human rights are for everybody. This argument shall be investigated in this essay, by: exploring definitions and history on human rights, debating on whether it is universal while providing examples and background

Human rights are universal rights that we are entitled to. It is a freedom that is guaranteed based on the principle of respect for an individual. As mentioned in the preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, human rights are a “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all member of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world” (Kent, page 80). When asked what our rights are, we tend to get different answers and meanings. Some people recite the rights that they know; but let’s face it, not everyone knows all of the rights that they truly have. The rights we have consist of many things such as the right of having an adequate food supply. The right to

Human rights describe equal rights and freedom for everybody by the fact of being human and without distinction of any kind of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinions. However, many people have always suffered from the lack of them throughout history. In fact, the lack of human rights has a lot of effects on people lives.