Human Rights Reflection

Human Rights in today's society in the theme I have chosen to focus this reflective writing piece. The Business Dictionary (2017) defines Human Rights as "The fundamental rights that humans have by the fact of being human, and that are neither created nor can be abrogated by any government". Firstly this refection will centre around my personal understanding of how Human Rights are related to my core values, beliefs and identity in today's society. Secondly, I will look into issues surrounding Human Rights and how these rights impact today's world. Lastly, this reflection will discuss how Event Management, my discipline is affected by the Human rights.

Firstly, to me Human rights gives every person the right to existence on earth, more specifically meaning that 'Under the Declaration of Human rights' any person has the right to life, equality, liberty, education, religion of their chose, freedom of speech, security of one's person and the right to a nationality just to name a few (Universal Declaration of human rights, 1948). However, in countless places around the world, people continue to suffer from Human rights abuses and are not receiving the respect that the Human right sort to provide (Gerber & Gory, 2014). For me personally, I have never face any true abuses of my Human rights, as I have lived a very sheltered life and the Values and beliefs I have grown up around, have lead me to live in a way where I respect others and treat them how I myself would want to be treated. Before taking this culture and society class I had never seen the declaration itself and never read the full 30 articles that it consists of. Nonetheless, the values and beliefs that I held lead me to live by these human rights without even reading them. In spite of this I have come to learn that not everyone receives the same rights that should apply to everyone, anywhere despite their age, gender, nationality, religion or ethnicity, the purpose of these rights were to provide a universal understanding of what every person's rights are, then forming a world built on peace, justice and freedom for all(Universal Declaration of human rights, 1948). Because these rights are not legally binding, people do not actually have to abide by

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