Human rights.

1. What are human rights?

Human rights are basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled.

2. When did human rights start?

They started the 10th December of 1948.

3. Why were they created?

They were crated after the Second World War because during the war died a lot of people and they weren't treated as humans. The United Nations wanted to finish with this kind of violence.

4. How many human rights are there?

There are 30 human rights.

5. Which human right were you not familiar with?

I wasn’t familiar with the article 24:

“Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.”

6. Choose one human right and discuss:

Article 6:

“Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.”

In my opinion, this human right is fully respected in my country.

For example, if we think about a person who commits a crime or something bad, we’ll all think he must go to prison. Instead of that, all criminals pass trough a trial and a judge decides what to do with them.

I think in the past it was not respected. I think about the famous Inquisition trial and I know they didn’t care about people.

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/11/24/uk-set-judicial-inquiry-complicity-torture

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/11/02/china-secret-black-jails-hide-severe-rights-abuses
 

7. Are Humans rights relevant in the world today? Why?

I think human right are very relevant in the world. However, I think in our countries they aren't as important than in poorer or underdepeloperd countries, because we have more rights that people living in there.