human rights

• The declaration consists of 30 articles that outline the fundamental rights and freedoms to which all individuals are entitled.
• Human rights are rights that can be claimed/entitlements by an individual and group right holders.
• Human rights are universal norms that help to protect all people everywhere from severe political, legal, and social and cultural abuses, so that we can hold states and people to be accountable, when they commit violations.
• Human rights focus on a freedom, protection, interest, status, or benefit for the right holders.
• Human rights impose duty on duty bearers and often require actions including protection, provision, enforcement, compensation.
• Human rights address a variety of specific problems such as the right to life, fair trials, ending slavery, apartheid, availability of education and health, preventing genocide, war crime, clean environment, development, and humanitarian aid etc.
• Human rights are rights that are the same for all human beings everywhere in the world.
• Human rights are universal and all living humans—or perhaps all living persons—have human rights by virtue of being human.
• Human rights are inalienable and people cannot lose or be denied human rights any more than they can cease to be a human being.
• Human rights are indivisible and all human rights are equally important—no-one can take away a right because it is ‘less important’ or ‘non-essential’ except a matter of priority issue.
• Human rights are interdependent and form a complementary framework.
• Human rights are inter-reliant with a symbiotic character.
• Advocates of formal/procedural democracy describe democracy as a method to producing governments as a function of the right to election, hence a prerequisite to democracy.
• The Environmental Right is understood as rights to a healthy or clean environment to the safe life of people.
• The Rule of Law contains three principles: Supremacy of Law, Equality before Law, and Prevalence of Legal Spirit.
• Environmental problems like global warming pose serious threats to fundamental human interest that governments may be burdened with the responsibility of protecting people against these threats.
• According to the United Nations (UN), the Rule of Law is a principle of governance in which all persons, public and private institutions and entities, including the State itself, are accountable to laws that are publicly broadcasted, equally enforced and independently adjudicated in consistent with international human rights norms.
• Under international law, a majority of legal scholars favors a minimalistic approach to define democracy as formal/procedural democracy and substance democracy.
• Third Generation of Human Rights include the right to peace and security, development, humanitarian assistance, and a healthy/clean environment.
• Democracy and human rights are interdependent.
• The Nexus of Democracy and Human Rights from a political science perspective means that Democracy is the rule of the people, a government of the people, and a government for the people.
• Participation in decision making is directly affected by your right to life, to express yourself, to associate with others, to education, self-development, and even basic requirements of life.
• A functional democracy that accommodates diversity, promotes equality, and protects individual freedoms is the best mechanism against the concentration of power in the hands of a few and abuse of human rights.
• The two international conventions, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, hold political rights and civil liberties as reinforcing meaningful democracies.
• Democracy and human rights are interdependent and mutually reinforcing, according to other literature.
• In 2000, the Commission recommended legislative, institutional, and practical measures to consolidate democracy to enhance global human right protection.
• Democracy cannot be defined without human rights and human rights can be protected effectively only in democratic systems.
• The relationship between democracy and human rights is interdependent and mutually constitutive/constructive, as both reinforce each other.
• In 2002, the Commission defined the essential elements of democracy in resolution 2002/46.
• Democracy is also defined as a prerequisite to human rights.
• Believers in substance democracy define democracy as a form of governance acting in the people’s best interest, including rule of law, respect of human right, check and balance, and good governance.
• The former UN Commission on Human Rights adopted several landmark resolutions regarding democracy and HR nexus.
• Democracy is considered a prerequisite for respecting human rights, according to other writings.
• The right to family life is of great significance for the continuation of the human race.
• The right to participate in cultural life and scientific progress is a part of social and cultural rights.
• Respect for human rights is considered a prerequisite for democracy by some literatures.
• Beitz sees human rights have developed in contemporary international relations.
• The right to adequate food, clothing, and housing are a part of social and cultural rights.
• Democracy is one of the universal core values and principles of the United Nations system.
• Beitz's broader justification for human rights offers that they are urgent individual interests against predictable dangers (standard threats) to which they are vulnerable under typical circumstances of life in a modern world order composed of states.