Human Rights

Human Rights

Prepared byZiyad Siso

Supervised byDR. Numan Kanar

What is human rights ?

Human rights are defined as the rights and freedoms that are inherent to all human beings, regardless of their nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status.

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Human rights must be afforded to everyone, without exception. The entire premise of the framework is that people are entitled to these rights simply by virtue of being human.

Universality

Some of the basic human rights

Indivisibility

Human rights are indivisible and interdependent, which means that in order to guarantee civil and political rights, a government must also ensure economic, social and cultural rights (and visa versa). The indivisibility principle recognizes that if a government violates rights such as health, it necessarily affects people’s ability to exercise other rights such as the right to life.

People have a right to participate in how decisions are made regarding protection of their rights. This includes but is not limited to having input on government decisions about rights. To ensure human rights, governments must engage and support the participation of civil society on these issues.

Participation:

Accountability

Governments must create mechanisms of accountability for the enforcement of rights. It is not enough that rights are recognized in domestic law or in policy rhetoric, there must actually be effective measures put in place so that the government can be held accountable if those rights standards are not met.

Transparency

Transparency means that governments must be open about all information and decision-making processes related to rights. People must be able to know and understand how major decisions affecting rights are made and how public institutions, such as hospitals and schools, which are needed to protect rights, are managed and run.

Human rights must be guaranteed without discrimination of any kind. This includes not only purposeful discrimination, but also protection from policies and practices which may have a discriminatory effect

Non-Discrimination

What is human rights watch?

Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights

On December 10, 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the 56 members of the United Nations. The vote was unanimous, although eight nations chose to abstain.

Where is human right watch?

Children and women

o 60 percent of the world’s hungry are women.

o 50 percent of pregnant women in developing countries lack proper maternal care, resulting in 240,000 maternal deaths annually from childbirth.

o 1 out of 6 infants are born with a low birth weight in developing countries.

o Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five – 3.1 million children each year. That is 8,500 children per day.

o A third of all childhood death in sub-Saharan Africa is caused by hunger.

o 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone

o Every 10 seconds, a child dies from hunger-related diseases.

HIV/AIDS and other Diseases

o 35 million people are living with HIV/AIDS.

o 52 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS are women

o 88 percent of all children and 60 percent of all women living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa

o 6.9 million children died in 2011 each year – 19,000 a day- mostly from preventable health issues such as malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.

Povertyo 1.4 billion people in developing countries live on $1.25 a

day or less.

o Rural areas account for three out of every four people living on less than $1.25 a day.

o 22,000 children die each day due to conditions of poverty.

Agriculture

o 75 percent of the world’s poorest people — 1.4 billion women, children, and men — live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their livelihood.

o 50 percent of hungry people are farming families.

Watero 1.7 billion people lack access to clean water.

o 2.3 billion people suffer from water-borne diseases each year

o 12 percent of the world’s population uses 85 percent of its water, and none of the 12 percent lives in developing countries.

Sources http://www.34.jubilee.edu.jo/Definition%20of%20Human%20Rights.html

http://www.nesri.org/programs/what-are-the-basic-principles-of-the-human-rights-framework

http://www.un.org/en/events/humanrightsday/

http://www.nesri.org/programs/what-are-the-basic-principles-of-the-human-rights-framework

http://thp.org/knowledge-center/know-your-world-facts-about-hunger-poverty/

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