Human Rights Laws

The United Nations has an agreement about human rights laws. We have certain rights when we are born and these rights include: the right to life, the right to liberty and freedom of movement, the right to equality before the law, the right to presumption of innocence until proven guilty, the right to appeal a conviction, the right to be recognized as a person before law, the right to privacy and protection of that privacy by law, freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of assembly and association.

Other rights that we have and we can defend are: the right for self determination, wages sufficient to support a minimum standard of living, equal pay for equal work, equal opportunity for advance, paid or compensated maternity leave, free primary education and accessible education at all levels, copyright, patent and trademark protection for intellectual property.

This is a very interesting and often complex matter, and sometimes we don’t even have the knowledge of all the rights that are there to support us. There are laws that protect us as individuals and help us fight to make our human rights validated. There are also some conventions to protect children, women and ethnic groups, racial or religious groups.

The idea of the Human Rights is that all of us can live in a free place and we can be treated equally and have the same opportunities to succeed. Unfortunately not all countries or individuals in the world can enjoy these rights.

Some of the laws that rule this world need to change and some others just need to be improved so we can really live in a better world and be treated equally without it mattering whether we are black, white, gay, heterosexual, fat, thin, ugly or pretty. We all need to have the same opportunities to succeed.