The Importance Of Human Rights

It is important to adopt a human rights approach to care and education in practice as children are looked upon as vunerable in society as they cannot express or defend themselves, therefore they need us to do that for them. Every child is equal no matter what gender, ethnicity, religion, language or ability. Because of this, every child should have their rights valued and respected in a care and education practice. Not only is it upto the carer in education practice to make sure that a human rights approach is adopted, but it is upto everyone. Many people say that being in school/nursery is the best years of their lives therefore it is upto us to make sure that in a care or education practice that a human rights approach is taken to ensure that this is the same for all children. It is important to adopt a human rights approach so that all children are developing and learning to their full potential. Also, when at school/nursery, the way others act towards you could impact on how you act towards others. Therefore, by making sure the children are meeting their rights will then hopefully make sure that they will make sure others do.

The US has attracted a great deal of criticism about their then-new ‘war on terror’ counter-terrorism approach, especially in regards to human rights violations. Evidence of such, was brought into light with the emergence of photographic evidence of torture and mistreatment of detainees in Abu Ghraib, but also these “legally black holes” like the Guantanamo Bay prisoner camp in Cuba. As can be concluded by this brief introduction to the ‘war on terror’, the US adopted a counter-terrorism approach that favoured its own national security over the protection of internationally-defined human rights, and in cases looks to turn where human rights are not ‘covered’, like creating definitions for “enemy combatants” or opening prison camps outside of the protection of human rights. Thus the question arises, what are human rights and what does it mean for them to be undermined? I will attempt to offer a brief discussion on what human rights are, and also what the obligations of the state towards them are. This will allow me to critically assess if human rights were undermined further on.

There are many countries which deny their inhabitants’ civilian rights. These human rights repudiation and violation are very common. Most riots and chaos happen because of emplacement comes in the scale of justice and whenever the injustice takes place in human rights many people lose their lives and human rights gets violated. There are many countries which are not concerned about their human rights because of the ongoing corruption in the government. Human rights cannot endure without the consistent responsibilities and duties.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1948, provides in Article 10 that: everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Human rights are very important and need to be protected. Mother Jones, Cesar Chavez and William Barber fought for human rights in one way or another. Mother Jones and Cesar Chavez fought for workers rights, while William Barber fights for civil rights. All of these individuals showed courage and determination while fighting for human rights.

Waldron’s assertion that rights are “by its very nature … an individualistic theory” because their purpose is to “secure goods for individuals”. Yet it does not necessarily follow that the requirements to be a rights-holder are restricted to individuals. Instead, this school of thought simply reflects the predominance of classical liberal theory in rights discourse and its legal canon. Green suggests that this is why certain interests associated with individualist qualities such as liberty and security are seen to be legitimate while other more communitarian interests, such as common enterprise, cooperative activity and group well-being, are not. Indeed, Marie-Benedicte goes so far as to suggest that human rights represent a “false aspiration” due to the prevalence given to the individual to the exclusion of solidarity, and so undermines the stability of mainstream human rights thinking. In this way, collective rights can be conceptually plausible within the rights discourse, and this is surely desirable if it provides more comprehensive protection of human rights.

After examining the readings, it is easy to conclude that unauthorized immigrants to the United Sates do not have enough rights. There are laws that protect migrants, such as a few that were discussed in “The Development of International Human Rights Laws” which protects individuals from torture, or enslavement; individuals also have their right of freedom of religion, along with other basic human rights that were not mentioned (Laets). However, the doctrine that was signed by the United States to protect people within its borders is still lacking in important rights that could further protect migrants from harm.

On December 10, 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Members of the United Nations who signed the Declaration, including Canada, were expected to protect and respect the rights of all human beings. One of those many rights included Article 25(1), which states:

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever their nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. The principle of universality of human rights is the foundation of international human rights law.

The international community has been paid close attention to the human rights issues since the World War II, and the importance of human rights as well as individual freedoms has been emphasized increasingly. According to Donnelly, human rights are the essential aspects that every person should be entitled. Even though human rights legislation may be different because of the political structure of the various sovereign states, there are still fundamental human rights that should be universal to all countries in the world, for example, food, personal security and the freedom of thought. These are the basic needs that should be provided to every human being throughout the world. Failure to adhere to them is, therefore, the violation of human rights. Furthermore, while enjoying one’s human rights, the individual should also respect and protect others’ rights, which is considered to be the correlative responsibilities of his rights (Donnelly, 2013).

Even though human rights should be given to people without the act of protesting, people still gather together, hold up enormous signs, and march forward to obtain their rights. Human rights are recognized by most of the nations; however, the actual situation of the world is different from ideals written in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Most of the times, rights are violated by selfishness of leaders because they want to gain even more power and wealth. In some cases, these rights are violated for good consequences for large group of people, but it is still harmful for others. No matter what the cause of violation is, it is important for everyone to protect everyone’s rights because human rights are given simply because they are human being. Although human rights are not provided for certain people due to issues such as poverty, human rights are intentionally violated by people, mainly leaders and dictators to benefit themselves by taking people’s rights away, which shows strong negative relationships between human rights and power.

Human rights are the fundamental rights and freedoms that all human beings are entitled to meaning unlike ordinary rights under domestic law, they are universal and inherited by all. After the mass genocide of Jews in ww2, the UN was formed and that instantly aided the UDHR into gaining recognition and importance. Internationally, there are many ways of promoting and enforcing human rights, some of these include Non government organisations, the International Crime Court, the security council and through the use of media. The effectiveness these each have is largely debated, differentiating by each case.

What can be considered as a human right? As quoted “Human rights are moral rights possessed by all human beings simply in virtue of their humanity.” Human rights are entitled to all human beings disregarding everything that divides and splits one human being from another. Things like religion and nationality can’t take away ones right to be considered a human.

From Article 25.1 under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it classifies that health and medical care is a basic human right. Although this document has no legalize backing, most countries support it and base their own policy on it. Human rights are important, as, without it, no one will have any freedoms and will harm their own health and health care access. While rights are important, for the safety of public health, people’s freedom might be taken away temporarily (isolation, for example). Individual human rights are important and should be protected.

Human Rights assumes an essential part of many individuals lives since it enables them to live free and not need to be stressed over anything. Having rights is something that makes us uncommon as human, it is something that is never going to be broken, stolen away, or lost. It is with you any and wherever you go. Human rights mean being able to hold hands with the person you love, work where you’re qualified to work without your skin color or sexual orientation being the reason you can’t; it means having the right to be human, making choices and mistakes. So, what are human rights? Human rights are the basic rights and freedom inherent to all human being, despite our nationality, sex, ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status, we are entitled to our rights without discrimination. Some consider how human rights came to be so essential to the general public we live in, and how it became a fundamental guideline.