Dictionary.com defines Human Rights:
The basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.
With that descriptive backdrop, what are your views of Human Rights? How important are they to you based on the definition above? Would you live in a country where Human Rights are either severly limited or absent altogether? For us somalis, how can Human Rights help us a ppl? Do we even need them.
The idea of Human Rights has long history going back to the French revolution and even further. The US Declaration of Independence of 1776, undoubtedly the most enlightening document ever written by man, says:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Although adhering to these pledges has been inconsistent, history is witness to progressive respect and codification of Human Rights in the West and other parts of the world. Many argue development and creation of just and socially harmonious society demands respect for Human Rights.
Certainly there are plenty stats backing up that view. A direct positive correlation exists between poor underdeveloped societies and lack of Human rights. There are few exceptions but that generalisation -- over all -- holds.
