What Are Human Rights?

The rights you have simply because you are human

Every single human being on this planet has rights (What Are Human Rights, n.d). These rights are given to us through birth, and the day I was asked, what my human rights were, I found myself speechless. I did not know how to answer the question, which at the time sounded so easy. I forgot about the question that had me so puzzled, and just brushed it off, ironically six month later I get an assignment on the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After reading this historic document, I realized how important human rights are. I believe most people take human rights for granted, we know they exist, but we don’t even know what they are and what they entail. This made me think a lot about the rights we all have, and how companies , schools and communities around the world incorporate most, if not all these rights into their policies.

What are human rights? Well to help understand this question I broke down “human” and “rights”. A Human being is A member of the Homo sapiens species; a man, woman or child; a person (human being, n.d). So we can assume this means every living person on the planet. Rights are the Things to which you are entitled or allowed; freedoms that are guaranteed (What Are Human Rights, n.d). We can also assume this stands for freedoms that we are guaranteed to have and never be taken from us. So finally to some up, what human rights are, Human Rights are the rights you have simply because you are human

(What Are Human Rights, n.d). When we take a look back into the past, there was not a specific document explaining human rights, in fact there wasn’t human rights. It literally took decades and decades of fighting between civilizations and countr...

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