The Importance Of Human Rights

Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as legal rights in national and international law.

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.

Human Rights are the rights everyone is supposed to be given no matter their discrepancies. Although many don’t realize it human rights play a huge role in our everyday lives. It may seem like they do not affect people. Our world acts as a safe little bubble, and as the world outside of our safe little bubble is examined, it’s realized that what many take for granted, others don’t even have. Some don’t even have the basic rights most are given. But without them the world would be a whole lot different.

Human rights are the recognition of basic rights and freedoms believed to justifiably belong to all human beings.

Human rights are entitlements inherent to all human beings and they apply to everyone regardless of sex, religion, ethnic origin or any other status.

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.”

The Human rights are defined as: “rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion,

The dictionary defines the term ‘Human Rights’ as “fundamental rights, especially those believed to belong to an individual and in whose exercise a government may not interfere. (Dictionary)” The Universal Declaration of Human Rights laid out thirty basic human rights that all humans are entitled to. While the United Nations did try to make sure everyone was treated the same, there are still many nation-states that do not allow their citizens basic rights. Or the governments turn their heads when their citizen’s human rights are being taken from them.

Every sentient human being has the right to live with “human rights” because morally it is right and is a way of life, but there are various factors and occurrences that come in play, which can contradict “human rights”. There are many ways that sentient human beings can lose their so called ”human rights”. Some examples might that can have someone lose their rights is by murdering, kidnapping, sexual assault, and basically having the intent of sternly harming a human being. These types of criminal acts are ways one can and should lose their “human rights”, some laws implemented into the system, which deny “human rights” might not be considered equitable, but should be considered as a minor punishment to

Human rights are fundamental rights that are inalienable which a person is entitled to inherently for the simple reason that they are human beings. They are inherent to human being regardless of their sex, nationality, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or any other status (United

The definition of the term human rights is described as the essential universal entitlements afforded to all humans. These rights are the underpinning of certain principles including that of liberty, fairness and respect of human dignity. Human rights must be acknowledged and protected by government agencies to ensure that these rights are taken into account in law, the process of legislation, public policy and politics.1 However many groups within society remain marginalised and vulnerable to human rights violations. The focus issue that will be discussed in this essay is the right to liberty- to not be apprehended in arbitrary custody, which interferes with the inherent human right to liberty, and the chosen vulnerable group is asylum seekers. Due to circumstances outside of their control the persons in this group flee their homelands in an effort to escape crisis and persecution, such as religious and political persecution.2 Every human has the right of asylum, as stated in article 14 of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, however asylum seekers are vulnerable due to violations of their human rights. Governments around the globe including Australia have not fulfilled their legal obligations toward asylum seekers and have in fact violated human rights and specific rights of asylum seekers which have been outlined in the 1951 UN Convention in relation to status of refugees.3

Human rights are rights that were given to us just for being human. It also allows us the right for equality amongst us and from any discriminative, degrading or prejudice

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

Each country has their own set of human rights, but there is also Universal Human Rights. Universal Human Rights come from the Universal Declaration of Human rights created by the United Nations. These rights protect all humans. Race, gender, class, ethnicity, etc. does not depend on your power to use these rights. It is a countries duty to protect these rights of their citizens.

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.