Introduction
Every human
will come face to face with a situation or an event that would require the
interference of some certain authority that will help in preserving and
protecting his rights . In some cases, and due to the defects and the weakness
of the law systems certain countries, the people rights will be lost under
these strong and unfair governments. To overcome this issue in some of the un developed
countries and sometimes even in the developed countries, a certain set of rules
and regulation was formed and it was called the human rights laws. In this
paper, I will be talking about the human rights, human rights philosophies and
human right classification.
Human right
Human rights
are defined as the set of moral principles that creates certain standards of
human behavior towards other humans and regularly protects human rights in
national and international law. Human rights are commonly known as the fundamental
rights to which a person deserves simply because she or he is a human being
living in this world. Human rights are universal and the same for everyone. Since
the day human rights were introduced to the international law, they have been
highly influential with global and regional institutions that are the different
law courts. The main idea and the main objective of human rights demonstrates
that the global society must speak a common moral language that is the human
rights. Unfortunately, with developed
world that we live in and with the different beliefs of different nations, the principles of human
rights continue to provoke considerable debates and doubts about the content,
nature and justifications of human rights. The reason behind that is because
the word rights will vary from one person to another and within one society to
another.
Human rights
philosophies
The main philosophy
of human rights is to examine and explain the basis of the concepts of human
rights and define the content and justification of human rights. To justify and
explain the Human Rights, several theories were proposed to explain how and why
human rights have become a part of social expectations in every nation. The
oldest philosophies of human rights are that human rights are a product of a
natural law, originated from different philosophical or religious grounds.
Another theory states that human rights arrange moral behavior, which is a
human social product, developed by a process of biological and social evolution
of the humans themselves. If we take a look into human rights we will find out
that, they are described as a sociological pattern of rules and regulations
used to protect human needs and believes. The human rights approach says that
individuals in a society should accept the rules from legitimate and legal authority
in exchange for security and economic advantage. In general, all human rights
theories demonstrate that the principal function of human rights is to protect
and promote certain essential human interests and to establish the validity of
human rights based on the unique human capacity for freedom and self-expression.
Classification of
human rights
Human rights
are classified to a number of categories at an international level. The most
common categories of human rights are split into civil and political rights,
and economic, social and cultural rights. The civil and political rights are
mentioned in articles 3 to 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and
in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Economic, social
and cultural rights are mentioned in articles 22 to 28 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and in the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights.
Conclusion
Nowadays,
and with many leaders around the world taking advantage of the weakness of
their people, a set of rules and regulations were implemented by the
international law to protect the rights of the people. Human rights are defined
as the sets of moral principles that create certain standards of human behavior
towards other humans and regularly protect humans as legal rights in national
and international law. All human rights theories demonstrate that the principal
function of human rights is to protect and promote certain essential human
interests and to establish the validity of human rights based on the unique
human capacity for freedom and self-expression. If it were not for the human
rights, many nations and many countries would live in the dark ages where
people struggle and suffer to survive in this world. The human rights are to protect
the rights of people around the world but unfortunately some of the people’s demands
are extreme and since some people stands for what they believe in, it will be
difficult to use the principles of human rights to protect them.
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