Human Rights Essay Writing

The rights you have simply because you are human

Every single human being on this planet has rights (What Are Human Rights, n.d). These rights are given to us through birth, and the day I was asked, what my human rights were, I found myself speechless. I did not know how to answer the question, which at the time sounded so easy. I forgot about the question that had me so puzzled, and just brushed it off, ironically six month later I get an assignment on theUnited Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After reading this historic document, I realized how important human rights are. I believe most people take human rights for granted, we know they exist, but we don't even know what they are and what they entail. This made me think...show more content...

After World War II, the document called "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" with the thirty rights (articles) to which all people are authorized to have(UDHR, 1948). The idea of "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" was to describe in detail the rights that all people were entitled to in the world, in hopes to preventing anymore wars like the two world wars, which resulted in millions of people's deaths and destruction of many countries(UDHR, 1948). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was accepted around the world as the document which defined the thirty rights that all people where entitled to, no matter where you were from, lived, born or did(UDHR, 1948).

It seems as if many organizations have in some way adapted to the principles of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this is evident at "Saint Leo University". Saint Leo University has incorporated six core values into the heart of the Universities community. These core values are Excellence, Community, Respect, Personal Development, Responsible Stewardship, and Integrity(Saint Leo University, n.d). While evaluating these core values, I thought to myself, what do any of these values have to do with the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights? While I'm sure this can be a debatable subject, I feel that two out of the six

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What Are Human Rights? Essay

The rights of the individual are rights which we receive when being born, we have these rights in order to protect ourselves, to give no one person absolute power, and to be 'free'. Freedom is one of the most important aspects of society. This was shown by Locke with him believing that we should all have our own rights that no one can take away. This was anideology that could protect individuals freedom from each other as well as corrupt state. What is best for society is a value and burden that we must all share, it is important for our society and global and national communities to grow, but to what extent should wesacrifice our rights as individuals to develop our society? We should not sacrifice the rights of the individual for what is best for society. The statement of "We need to stop worrying about the rights f the individual and start worrying about what is best for society." Is a source which has a strong ideology, but is almost backwards in its thinking. This is because by sacrificing rights we are losing our ideologies as a society. The rights of individuals protect and offer freedom, a core concept in our global society as well as our national communities, as well as ourselves. One example of a right which we have in Canada to protect our freedoms is our right to migrate to and from other countries. We can go to and from countries, live in them, and we can still return back to Canada. This is important as if we didn't have this right as individuals we

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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Human Rights

1.The UDHR and the United States Bill of Rights do not have as many similarities as one might think, but some do exist. One of these similarities of these two documents is the freedom from torture and inhumane treatment. In the UDHR this freedom can be found in article 5 when it is stated protection is provided against, "torture, under any circumstances." This coincides with article 8 of the United States Bill of Rights, which states, "excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." Freedom of religion is also mentioned in both documents. Both Article 18 of the UDHR and Article 1 of the U.S. Bill of rights say that people have the right to exercise ...show more content...

The U.S. Bill of Rights does not have an article in which these basic needs are guaranteed to the people. A third conflict in the two documents has to do with the right for individuals to freely choose any spouse they would like. This right is specifically mentioned in article 16 when it is said, "Restrictions many not be placed on whom you marry." This right is not stated in the U.S. Bill of Rights and is even unclear at the state level her in the United States.

3.I believe the UDHR reflects a greater number of security–oriented rights. It seems as though the 30 articles of the UDHR more clearly protect peoples' well being than the 10 articles of the United States Bill of Rights. There are three articles in particular which prompted me to select the UDHR. The first Article I looked at was Article 27. It states, "Every individual has the right to participate in the cultural life of their community." The U.S. Bill of rights discusses how people may express themselves in any way they please, but there is no Article, which clearly defines peoples' right to get involved with the cultural life of the community. Article 24 of the UDHR protects individuals in a manner, which the U.S. Bill of Rights does not. This articles says individuals have the right to take regular holidays and rest. A person's well being and health is protected by an article such as this and the U.S. Bill of Rights completely lacks any article of the kind. Since it is