Human Rights

I'm sure we all have listened to a lot of times about Human Right, but we really know what they are? Why do they need to exist? Or what are they importance?

Well, we start at the beginning. Human Rights are the rights that have all the humans without distinction for the simple fact of been a human. Human Rights are universal and it means that have the same value and validity in all the world.

It is in the 17th century when we start to see some statements with a clear idea of a "natural right" and in the 17th century, there are some countries that start to include "Bills of Rights" in their Constitutions. Along the 19th and 20th century we can start to see some laws that act as a guarantor for the dignity or moral integrity of humans. But it's also the time when took place the First World War and then, despite all the efforts, we can't avoid the Second World War with all the consequences that it involves. And it's just in this time when born the necessity of designated guarantees individuals against public authorities. On 1948, the United Nations General Assembly approved the document entitled "Universal Declaration of Human Rights", totally thirty items, which represent civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights. 

I would like to talk about the 19th article: 

Article 19."Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom o hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and idea through any media and regardless of frontiers"

Of course, there are a lot of articles that should be the base of our societies they should be in all ideologies and behavior of all citizens. They would have to be taken for granted without the necessity of have to be included in a document. But, unfortunately, the history of humanity lead us the need of having to include them. I'm talking about the number one, for example, that says: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights", or the number three that says: "Everyone has the right to live, liberty and security of person".

I have chosen the number 19 because I think it's one of the least respected rights. We are in an age where it supposes we can express and say whatever we want immediately, thought The Internet, we have the possibility of share what we have to say with all the world and also we have the possibility to listen to everybody. Even so, there are some places where people are jail because of their thoughts and there are some places where the words of ones have more weight that the others.

But this article says something more that it's also very important in any society. People have the right to listening others and choose what opinion he defend without interference. Nobody should be coerced by the ideas of others and nobody should be treated as the instrument of another cause than itself. Freedom of opinion and freedom of speech also includes not be intilled something you don't want.