Issues of Human rights

• Jesus

  Treated the outcasts with dignity e.g. healed the lepers
• "You put me together in my mother's womb": 'Humans are made "in the image of God". Humans are a creation of God so deserve to be treated with dignity.'
• Parable of the sheep and the Goats


  "I was hungry and you fed me." Jesus tells his followers to look after others.
• Right to life and possessions


  • "do not kill"
  • "Do not steal"
• Tathagatagarbha


  All have Buddha nature and can achieve Buddhahood-deserve respect
• 8 fold path


  • Right action
  • Right speech
  • Precepts
• Act and speak with metta towards others


  Thus treating them with dignity
• Good karma to treat others with dignity
• Pratitya


  Set up conditions to end suffering of others
• "No greater love has man than when he lays down his life for another.": 'Jesus'
• "blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness": 'Jesus'
• Jesus' example-healed on the Sabbath, gave up his own life
• Tearfund/Christian Aid give emergency aid to those with no food/shelter water e.g. in Ukraine and Syria
• Martin Luther King protested with marches, boycotts to promote fair treatment of black Americans
• Salvation Army run soup kitchens, help with addicts
• Tearfund provide emergency aid in Syria, raise money through events, focus on citizen's rights and environmental change in Nigeria, campaign on violence towards women and climate change
• First precept

  Show loving kindness to all human beings
• Karuna Trust in India provides education for the poor
• Buddhists support fair trade
• Ambedkar fought for the rights of untouchables in India
• Thich Quang Duc burned himself in Vietnam to protest against injustices
• British Airways hostess Nadia Eweida was not allowed to wear her cross outside her uniform
• British judge ruled Muslim defendant cannot wear full face veil whilst giving defence
• Attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in France by IS for satirising Muhammad
• Robert Dear killed 3 people and injured 9 others at a Planned Parenthood clinic
• Westboro Baptist Church protests with banners and at funerals, claiming "God hates all people except a few"
• BR Ambedkar achieved a Doctorate, became India's defence secretary, published a weekly journal criticising the caste system, fought for untouchables' rights in law courts, publicly burned discriminative Hindu laws, led marches for untouchables, and drafted India's constitution to outlaw the caste system
• Pratitya

  Set up conditions to end suffering