Human rights

Cards (20)

  • Universality
    Everyone born and posses the same right.
  • Inalienability
    people's right can never be taken away
  • Indivisibility
    all human rights have equal status whether they relate to civil cultural economic political or social issues
  • Universality and Inalienability
    human rights are universal and inalienable. All people everywhere in the world are entitled to them. The universality of human rights is in composed in the words of article 1 of the universal declaration of human rights that says "all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights"
  • Interdependence and interrelatedness
    The fulfillment of one right often depends upon the fulfillment of other rights. All rights depends on one another, and you cannot divide or separate them
  • Equality and Non discrimination
    All individuals are equal as human beings and by virtue of the inherent dignity of each human person no one therefore should suffer discrimination on the basis of race color ethnicity gender age language sexual orientation religion political or other opinion national social or geographical origin disability property birth or other status as established by human rights standards
  • Participation and Inclusion
    All people have the right to participate in and access information relating to the decision making process that affect their lives and well-being rights based approaches require a high degree of participation by communities social societies minorities women young people indigenous peoples and other identified groups
  • Accountability and Rule of law
    States and other duty-bearers are answerable for the observance of human rights. In this regard, they have to comply with the legal norms and standards enshrined in international human rights instruments. Where they fail to do so, aggrieved rights-holders are entitled to institute proceedings for appropriate redress before a competent court or other adjudicator in accordance with the rules and procedures provided by law.
  • Human
    person living breathing entities capable of failing and showing emotions such as love hate compassion and indifference
  • Human Rights
    universal guarantees pro tecting individuals and groups against actions that interfere with fundamental freedoms, and humsn dignity.
  • Human rights law
    laws that obliges governments to do some things, and prevents them from doing others.
  • Customary international law
    law that develops through the general and consistent practice and is follow because of a sense of legal obligations
  • Treaty law
    laws that are set out in many international agreements that have been collectively developed signed and ratified by members human right treaties conventions and convenants
  • International human rights instruments

    treaties and other international documents relevant to international human rights law and protection of human rights in general
  • Declarations
    adopted by bodies such as united nations general assembly, not legally binding although may be politically so, as soft law.
  • Conventions
    legally binding instruments concluded under international law
  • every individuals has dignity and it gives an individual a sense of value and worth. Human dignity is not an individual exclusive and isolated sense it is a part of our common humanity
  • To respect a right means refraining from interfering with the enjoyment of the right to protect the right. To protect the right means enacting laws that create mechanisms to prevent violation of the ride by state authorities or by non-state actors. this protection is to granted equally to all. To fulfill the right means to take active steps to put in place institutions and procedures including the allocation of resources to enable people to enjoy the right.
  • since 1948 the united nations has been engaged in defining the international human rights standards particularly in relation to specifications some examples are human rights, freedom rights and prohibitions related to human rights.
  • Human Rights have been promoted since 1946 by the united nations as part of its mandate. But since the human rights standard setting has been continuously developing, new concepts have also been adopted by the international community and made part of human rights obligations of the states.