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Hon’ble Principal, Vice Principal, My Fellow Colleagues and Dear Students – Good Morning to everyone present here!
I would like to utilize this opportunity to share my views on human rights and their relevance in today’s world.
Let us first understand what exactly Human rights entail. Broadly speaking, human rights are such rights which each individual becomes entitled to by virtue of his birth and nationality. These rights are considered to be indispensable for any human being irrespective of his/her nationality, race, religion, language, etc. Different countries have their own set of legislatively backed human rights which its citizens are entitled to but the basic theme across is the same – to provide each of its citizens equal rights and not to discriminate among them.
The concept of Human rights has been constantly evolving over the period of time. There have been some basic tenets in the way human societies functioned which recognized the importance of giving each individual access to certain rights. The society recognizes these rights of the individual and respects them.
The earliest civilizations tried codifying the rights as part of the law. Hammurabi’s law was one of the first recorded mentions of the rights of individuals. However, these rights across the societies varied for different individuals. Although the basic concept has been that all citizens are equal, the definition of citizens vastly varied and there were many people who would fall beyond the gambit of citizens and hence do not have a statutory backing to their human rights. Over the period of time, the efforts of various social reformers and activists across different time periods have been to bring in more people into this concept of being citizens.
The international law and theories which started taking shape around 19th century have attempted towards defining the human rights which are rights each individual is entitled to irrespective of the race, religion or culture. The qualification of being an individual defined here is in larger sense unlike the definition of citizens in the earlier societies. The efforts towards abolishing slavery, fights for equal rights to women, universal adult franchise are few of the efforts that ensured the discrimination of whom to be recognized as being eligible to have rights have been reduced and every individual by virtue of being born as human being is entitled to human rights.
In today’s world, most of the countries recognize human rights and make it a part of their constitutional provisions. The countries which have not yet recognized the basic equality of all its citizens are trying to bring in changes in and provide safeguards for all the citizens to be enfranchised of the rights. These countries face the challenge of deep rooted stigma and discrimination carried down from many centuries. Implementing and practicing at the ground level still remains a problem. Individuals and in many cases large groups of individuals are denied their basic human rights. The main reason for it is the lack of awareness of what they are entitled to.
Human rights are universal and everyone needs to be educated on these and understand that no matter where they are born and who they are, by virtue of being born as humans some rights automatically become a part and parcel of their life in a social set up.
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I would like to utilize this opportunity to share my views on human rights and their relevance in today’s world.
Let us first understand what exactly Human rights entail. Broadly speaking, human rights are such rights which each individual becomes entitled to by virtue of his birth and nationality. These rights are considered to be indispensable for any human being irrespective of his/her nationality, race, religion, language, etc. Different countries have their own set of legislatively backed human rights which its citizens are entitled to but the basic theme across is the same – to provide each of its citizens equal rights and not to discriminate among them.
The concept of Human rights has been constantly evolving over the period of time. There have been some basic tenets in the way human societies functioned which recognized the importance of giving each individual access to certain rights. The society recognizes these rights of the individual and respects them.
The earliest civilizations tried codifying the rights as part of the law. Hammurabi’s law was one of the first recorded mentions of the rights of individuals. However, these rights across the societies varied for different individuals. Although the basic concept has been that all citizens are equal, the definition of citizens vastly varied and there were many people who would fall beyond the gambit of citizens and hence do not have a statutory backing to their human rights. Over the period of time, the efforts of various social reformers and activists across different time periods have been to bring in more people into this concept of being citizens.
The international law and theories which started taking shape around 19th century have attempted towards defining the human rights which are rights each individual is entitled to irrespective of the race, religion or culture. The qualification of being an individual defined here is in larger sense unlike the definition of citizens in the earlier societies. The efforts towards abolishing slavery, fights for equal rights to women, universal adult franchise are few of the efforts that ensured the discrimination of whom to be recognized as being eligible to have rights have been reduced and every individual by virtue of being born as human being is entitled to human rights.
In today’s world, most of the countries recognize human rights and make it a part of their constitutional provisions. The countries which have not yet recognized the basic equality of all its citizens are trying to bring in changes in and provide safeguards for all the citizens to be enfranchised of the rights. These countries face the challenge of deep rooted stigma and discrimination carried down from many centuries. Implementing and practicing at the ground level still remains a problem. Individuals and in many cases large groups of individuals are denied their basic human rights. The main reason for it is the lack of awareness of what they are entitled to.
Human rights are universal and everyone needs to be educated on these and understand that no matter where they are born and who they are, by virtue of being born as humans some rights automatically become a part and parcel of their life in a social set up.
Thank You!
Hope it will help you ☺☺
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In an ordered society, for the overall development of the human personality, rights play a very significant role. The rights of the individual are the conditions under which Hayek is able to realize his ideals, that is, the individual can realize his cherished goals only when he has the minimum set of rights.
The definition of human rights can be best explained in the words of Laski as ‘Rights, in fact, are those conditions of social life without which no man can seek, in general, to be himself at his best’. In simple terms, rights are the basic conditions of man’s good life, which are recognized as such by the legal code of the state.
In negative terms, ‘Rights are those opportunities the absence of which deprives man of something essential’. According to Laski, ‘state is known by the rights that it maintains’. The realization of rights can only be possible in a democratic state where liberty and equality coexist.
Without liberty, the rights of the people cannot be safeguarded. In democratic regimes, the periodic elections, alternative party system, free press and independent judiciary are very vital for implementation of the rights. And the citizens have the power to exercise certain rights, which the state should not ordinarily curtail.
The state restraints its activities to grant the individual an independent jurisdiction. While the individual in the strictly legal sense, is required to owe his allegiance to the state— he has also the duty of scrutinizing both the motive and characteristics of government acts. In a sense in democratic regimes, the rights of the individual curtail the powers of the state to the extent that it cannot become arbitrary, despotic or tyrannical.
Thus, the rights curb the authority of the government and prevent it from exercising unbridled power. To sum up, in a truly democratic state, the rights of the individual are indispensable. On the contrary, the absence of distinction between the state and government is the defining feature of authoritarian regimes where due to the concentration of power in the hands of the state, the rights of the individual are very nominal. Moreover, ruthless enforcement of laws and the maintenance of the prevalent social and political order characterize authoritarian regimes.
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The definition of human rights can be best explained in the words of Laski as ‘Rights, in fact, are those conditions of social life without which no man can seek, in general, to be himself at his best’. In simple terms, rights are the basic conditions of man’s good life, which are recognized as such by the legal code of the state.
In negative terms, ‘Rights are those opportunities the absence of which deprives man of something essential’. According to Laski, ‘state is known by the rights that it maintains’. The realization of rights can only be possible in a democratic state where liberty and equality coexist.
Without liberty, the rights of the people cannot be safeguarded. In democratic regimes, the periodic elections, alternative party system, free press and independent judiciary are very vital for implementation of the rights. And the citizens have the power to exercise certain rights, which the state should not ordinarily curtail.
The state restraints its activities to grant the individual an independent jurisdiction. While the individual in the strictly legal sense, is required to owe his allegiance to the state— he has also the duty of scrutinizing both the motive and characteristics of government acts. In a sense in democratic regimes, the rights of the individual curtail the powers of the state to the extent that it cannot become arbitrary, despotic or tyrannical.
Thus, the rights curb the authority of the government and prevent it from exercising unbridled power. To sum up, in a truly democratic state, the rights of the individual are indispensable. On the contrary, the absence of distinction between the state and government is the defining feature of authoritarian regimes where due to the concentration of power in the hands of the state, the rights of the individual are very nominal. Moreover, ruthless enforcement of laws and the maintenance of the prevalent social and political order characterize authoritarian regimes.
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