Human rights are fundamental entitlements inherent to all individuals simply by virtue of their humanity, evolving over millennia from exclusive privileges to universal ideals, yet their practical realization remains an ongoing struggle requiring individual action.
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human rights is
um geez that's a good question human
rights oh that's tough wow
um I don't even know how to give that a
definition I would probably have to do a
little bit of homework or something any
right that I think any just as a normal
you know uh human any the rights that humans
humans
have oh that's a very large debate
we just take them for granted that
they're there but we don't even consider
what they [Music]
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are human rights are the rights you have
simply because you're human it's how you
instinctively expect and deserve to be
treated as a person like the right to
live freely to speak your mind and to be
treated as an
equal there are many kinds of Rights
most apply to a certain group but human
rights are the only ones that apply to
absolutely everyone everywhere that
means kids old people poor people
basketball players garbage men rappers
teachers Africans Indians albanians
Christians Muslims cabalists atheists
your mom your dad your next door
neighbor and you all have the exact same
human rights in other words they're
Universal but the question remains what
are they name human the human rights
what the human rights are um the right
to live um equality between All Peoples
right to religion the right
to is there supposed to be a list
somewhere I should be aware of according
to the United Nations there are a total
of 30 human rights which are usually
lumped together and called simply human
rights they're all listed out in a
universal Declaration of Human Rights
which is the world's most widely
accepted document on the subject but it
was a long time in
coming at first there were no human
rights if you were in with the right
crowd you were safe if you weren't well
you weren't but then a guy named Cyrus
the Great decided to change all that
after conquering Babylon he did
something completely
revolutionary he announced that all
slaves were free to go he also said
people had the freedom to choose their
religion no matter what crowd they were
a part of they documented his words on a
clay tablet known as the Cyrus cylinder
and just like that human rights were
born the idea spread quickly to Greece
to India and eventually to Rome they
noticed that people naturally followed
certain laws even if they weren't told
to they called this natural law but it
kept getting trampled on by the those in
power not until a thousand years later
in England did they finally get a king
to agree that no one can overrule the
rights of the people not even a king
people's rights were finally recognized
and they were now safe from those in
power kind of it still took a bunch of
British Rebels declaring their
independence before the king got the
point that all men are created equal
which isn't to say he liked the idea but
he couldn't stop them and America was
born the French immediately followed
with their own Revolution for their own
rights their list was even longer and
they insisted that these rights weren't
just made up they were natural the Roman
concept of natural law had become
natural rights unfortunately not
everyone was so thrilled in France a
general named Napoleon decided to
overthrow the new French democracy and
Crown himself emperor of the world
he almost succeeded but the countries of
Europe joined forces and defeated him
Human Rights was again a Hot Topic they
drew up International agreements broadly
granting many rights across
Europe but only across Europe the rest
of the world somehow still didn't
qualify instead they got invaded
conquered and consumed by Europe's massive
massive
Empires but then a young lawyer from
India decided enough was enough
his name was Mahatma Gandhi and in the
face of violence he insisted that all
people of Earth had rights not just in
Europe eventually even Europeans started
to agree but it wasn't going to be that
easy two world wars erupted Hitler
exterminated half the Jewish population
of Earth in horrifying Nazi death camps
all told 90 million people
died never had human rights been so
terrifyingly close to
extinction and never had the world been
more desperate for
change so the countries of Earth banded
together and formed the United
Nations their basic purpose was to
reaffirm faith in fundamental human
rights in the dignity and worth of the human
human
person but what were human rights were
they the proclamations of Cyrus the
natural laws of Rome
the Declarations of France everyone
seemed to have a slightly different idea
of what human rights should
be but under the supervision of Eleanor
Roosevelt they finally agreed on a set
of rights that applied to absolutely
everyone the universal Declaration of Human
Human
Rights the French concept of natural
rights had finally become human rights
so in summary at first only a few lucky
people had any rights until one of those
guys decided hey other people should
have some rights too which was great
except not everyone agreed and it only
took a few thousand years of fighting
and declarations and more fighting until
everyone finally agreed that human
rights should apply to everyone and they
all lived happily ever
after except for one little
problem if people have the right to food
and shelter why are 16,000 children
dying of starvation every day one every 5
5
seconds if people have freedom of speech
why are thousands in prison for speaking their
their
minds if people have the right to
education why are over a billion adults
unable to read if slavery has truly been
abolished why are 27 million people
still enslaved today more than twice as
many as in
1800 the fact is when it was signed the
universal Declaration of Human Rights
did not have the force of law it was
optional and despite many more documents
conventions treaties and
laws it's still little more than words
on a
page so the question is who will make
those words a
reality I have a dream
today when Dr King marched for racial
equality he was Marching for rights that
had been guaranteed by the United
Nations for almost two
decades but still he
marched when Nelson Mandela stood up for
social justice in the 1990s his country
had already agreed to abolish such
discrimination for almost 40 years but
still he
fought those who fight today Against
torture poverty and discrimination are
not Giants or
superheroes they're
people kids mothers fathers
teachers freethinking individuals who
refuse to be
silent who realize that human rights are
not a history lesson they're not words
on a page they're not speeches or
commercials or PR
campaigns they are the choices we make
every day as human beings they are the
responsibility we all share to respect
each other to help each other and to
protect those in
need as Eleanor Roosevelt said where
after all do Universal human rights
begin in small places close to home so
close and so small that they cannot be
seen on any maps of the
world yet they are the world of the
individual person the neighborhood he
lives in the school or college he
attends the factory farm or office where he
he
works such are the places where every
man woman and child child seeks Equal
justice equal opportunity equal dignity without
without
discrimination unless these rights have meaning
meaning
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