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[Video] What Human Rights mean to me

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Nelson Mandela said, “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can learn to love.”

Human rights violations know no borders. From child soldiers in the Congo, ethnic cleansing in Darfur, to the rise in human trafficking right here in the US, it is easy to see that the whole world needs to change.

By knowing all 30 Articles of the UDHR we can be equipped with the knowledge to fight against any injustice anywhere in the world. On this 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration, with all the turmoil that currently exists in the world, it has become more important than ever for people to know their rights, to pass them onto others, and to defend them relentlessly.

The solution to global issues such as poverty, famine, war and political unrest is encompassed by the UDHR, and human rights education is the first step in resolving these issues at a grassroots level.

I hope to see the day when human rights education becomes a mandatory part of every middle school curriculum on every continent across the world, so that every man, woman and child knows and can defend their God-given rights.

- Amnesty International, USA

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[Videos] YOU ARE THE JUDGE! ~ The Government VS The Right To Travel! – youtube

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Freedom of movement, mobility rights or the right to travel is a human right concept that the constitutions of numerous states respect. It asserts that a citizen of a state in which that citizen is present has the liberty to travel, reside in, and/or work in any part of the state where one pleases within the limits of respect for the liberty and rights of others,[1] and to leave that state and return at any time. Some immigrants’ rights advocates assert that human beings have a fundamental human right to mobility not only within a state but between states.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement

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[Video] Human Rights Defenders – youtube

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Human rights defenders are individuals, groups of people or organizations who promote and protect human rights through peaceful and non-violent means. They:

  • uncover violations
  • subject violations to public scrutiny
  • press for those responsible to be accountable
  • empower individuals and communities to claim their basic entitlements as human beings.

Throughout history, courageous and visionary people have sought to extend the boundaries of human rights protection to those outside its boundaries, whether it be those living in slavery, workers unprotected against exploitation or women denied the vote.

Today, despite international laws that protect them, human rights defenders are needed all over the world to monitor and challenge abuses and violations.

 

- Amnesty International

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[Book] Legalization of Human Rights

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Of the many concepts employed in law and politics, the concept 
of human rights is the most obvious expression of a moral ideal. 
As such, it is also a view about, at least, the minimal social 
conditions necessary for the existence of a healthy political 
order. Yet, the specification, implementation and interpretation 
of that ideal has, since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 
been dominated by international law.


This fact should be striking for three reasons, all of them implied 
in the above description of the ideal. The first is that a moral 
ideal would seem to imply that the specification, definition and 
interpretation of these rights is not a necessarily legal process—
the ideal is not a legal ideal, that is, unless one believes legal 
codification is the only, or principal, way to express these moral 
aims, and that legal interpretation is merely the working out of 
these aims on a case-by-case basis. 


Secondly, the ideal of human rights describes a social order in which 
persons have social guarantees against certain abusive forms of behaviour, 
or types of usage of state power. Law would normally be thought of as 
just one element of such an order, and in fact the efficient operation of 
law itself presupposes many other social practices and guarantees, for 
example, a certain degree of social stability and confidence in the 
legal system. 


Thirdly, there is no obvious reason why all human rights, or all aspects
of human rights, are most appropriately advanced through legal means, 
unless that is one thinks that human rights ideals have an efficient 
and functioning human rights law as their primary aim.


An additional complication for this simple image of a transference of 
human rights aims or ideals into human rights legal aims and practice, 
is the kind of laws that are involved. The legal codification of universal 
human rights has taken place in international law which, by its nature, 
has distinctive features we should be wary of when looking at what it 
codifies and how. The way international law codifies human rights is 
likely to be sensitive to a number of non-neutral influences, such 
as inter-state negotiations, compromise, and the accommodation of 
other goals and values than human rights themselves. 


Furthermore, it is a significant feature of international human rights 
law that, once ratification of international treaties has been achieved, 
the process of implementation is state-driven.


Human rights legalized—defining, interpreting, and implementing an ideal

- Başak Çali and Saladin Meckled-García
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[Video] Malcolm X: We demand our rights – youtube

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“We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to

be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a

human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which

we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.”

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       - Malcolm X

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[In the Web] Miriam’s RH speech on Reproductive Rights as Part of Human Rights

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Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago, the main sponsor of the Senate Bill 2378 or "An Act Providing for a National Policy on Reproductive Health and Population and Development." Photo from newsinfo.inquirer.net

Our topic is the nature of reproductive rights as part of the greater sum of human rights. In legal terms, human rights form the totality of the freedoms, immunities, and benefits that, according to modern values – specially at an international level – all human beings should be able to claim as a matter of right in the society in which they live.

In international law, the basic document is the non-binding but authoritative Universal Declaration of Human Rights, accompanied by the binding documents known as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.

In national or domestic law, the basic document is the Philippine Constitution, particularly Article 2 on Declaration of State Policies, and Article 3 on the Bill of Rights. Our Constitution, Art. 2 Sec. 15 specifically provides: “The State shall protect and promote the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among them.” This right to health is now viewed as including the right to reproductive health.

Reproductive rights constitute the totality of a person’s constitutionally protected rights relating to the control of his or her procreative activities. Specifically, reproductive rights refer to the cluster of civil liberties relating to pregnancy, abortion, and sterilization, specially the personal bodily rights of a woman in her decision whether to become pregnant or bear a child.

The phrase “reproductive rights” includes the idea of being able to make reproductive decisions free from discrimination, coercion, or violence. Human-rights scholars increasingly consider many reproductive rights to be protected by international human rights law.

When we speak of Philippine internal laws and politics, we are speaking of the so-called “horizontal” strand of the human rights movement. But as constitutionalism spreads among states, we now speak of the so-called “vertical strand” of the new international law, that is meant to bind states and that is implemented by the new international institutions. Filipino politicians seem to be aware only of the horizontal but not of the vertical dimension of the human rights movement.

 

Read full transcript at  http://www.senate.gov.ph/press_release/2011/0915_santiago2.asp

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[Video] Human Rights Video: Born Free and Equal – youtube

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Human rights # 1

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

This simply means that we are all the same and that we all have the same rights regardless of age race, gender, or nationality. Every human being has to have the same opportunity in life: to live in peace and decent, to get education and job, to have family of own choice and to take part in social life. The problem is that it doesn’t work that way, instead it is always the other way around. For society divides the world in classes – between those who have and those who have not, and human rights are acknowledged  based on this category.

It is about time for everyone to respect each other because we are born free and equal.

-from http://www.humanrights.com/what-are-human-rights/videos/born-free-and-equal.html

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[Video] Human Rights songs – youtube

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[Video] Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights – youtube

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