Human Rights in Global and Regional Perspectives

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 Mostcountries celebrate December 10,
the anniversary of its adoption, as
Human Rights Day.
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 The International Bill of Human Rights recognizes
the rights to:
› Equality of rights without discrimination.
› Life
› Liberty and security of person
› Protection against slavery
› Protection against torture and cruel and inhuman
punishment
› Recognition as a person before the law
› Equal protection of the law
› Access to legal remedies for rights violations (Cont…)
the rights to:
› Protection against arbitrary arrest or detention.
› Hearing before an independent and impartial judiciary
› Presumption of innocence
› Protection against arbitrary arrest or detention.
› Hearing before an independent and impartial judiciary.
› Presumption of innocence
› Protection against ex-post facto laws.
› Protection of privacy, family and home.
› Freedom of movement and residence
(Cont…)
 The International Bill of Human Rights recognizes the
rights to:
› Seek asylum from persecution.
› Nationality
› Marry and found a family.
› Own property
› Freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.
› Freedom of opinion, expression and the press.
› Freedom of assembly and association.
› Political participation.
› Social Security.
› Work, under favourable conditions.
› Free trade unions.
› Rest and leisure
› Food, clothing and housing.
› Health care and social services.
Cont….
the rights to:
› Special protections for children.
› Education
› Participation in cultural life
› A social and international order needed to realize rights
› Self – determination
› Humane treatment when detained or imprisoned
› Protection against debtor’s prison
› Protection against arbitrary expulsion of aliens.
› Protection against advocacy of racial or religious hatred.
› Protection of minority culture.
Cont…..
 Amnesty International is a worldwide
movement of people who campaign for
internationally recognized human rights for
all.
 On Human Rights Day, 10 December, the
first Amnesty candle was lit in the church of
St-Martin-in-the-Fields, London in 1961
 At a conference in Belgium, a decision
was made to set up a permanent
organization that will be known as
Amnesty International in 1962.
 The International Secretariat (Amnesty
International’s headquarters) was
established in London in 1963.
 The Amnesty International
concentrates on freedom of opinion,
the rights to a fair trial, and freedom
from torture and the death penalty.
A dictatorship is an autocratic
form of government in which the
government is ruled by a dictator.
 Oligarchy is a form of government
where political power effectively rests
with a small elite segment of society
(whether distinguished by wealth,
family or military powers).
 The word, Holocaust, derives from
Greek words, meaning complete
destruction, usually by fire. By the end
of the 17th century, the word came to
mean a great slaughter or massacre. It
is now used to describe the genocide
against the Jews in Europe by the
Nazis.
 As argued by a prominent Malaysian
social activist, Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, seen
from the religious and cultural viewpoint,
reducing human rights to civil and
political rights, as the advanced Western
nations have propagated, is tantamount
to a terrible injustice. In any culture and
religion, be it in Christianity, Islam,
Buddhism, Hinduism or Judaism, the poor
have preference. To ignore the rights of
the poor is a moral crime.
 In1995 the value of HDI was 0.839,
that is the median value achieved in
the region, as against that of East
Asia 0.766, South East Asia and the
Pacific 0.677; South Asia 0.452 and
Sub-Saharan Africa 0.378.
 Asian,
African and Latin American
Countries. (AALA)
 In approaching human rights questions within
the United Nations system, the International
Community should accord, or continue to accord,
priority to the search for solutions to the mass
flagrant violations of human rights of peoples
and persons affected by situations, such as those
resulting from apartheid, from all forms of racial
discrimination, from colonialism, from foreign
domination and occupation, from aggression and
threats against national sovereignty, national
unity and territorial integrity, as well as from the
refusal to recognize the fundamental rights of
peoples to self determination and of every nation
to the exercise of full sovereignty over its wealth
and natural resources.
 Dheeraj Mehrotra
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