Global Citizenship

In recent years, the rights and duties of global citizenship have been by many parties including inside and outside universities. Eade and O’Byrne (2005, 17) say “After human have been independent, their live become more flexible and colorful because people can do everything that they prefer to do, so that mankind more enjoyable with their lifestyle and need to protect their rights”. Some people misunderstand the rights and duties of global citizenship because they lack education about them “Improving the education of democracy is helping people to know their rights” (Heater 2004, 77). The definition of global citizenship is hard to explain because the meaning is so wide and, therefore, difficult to define in a short way. Keeping and Shapiro (2008, 2) describe a meaning of global citizenship as “Global citizenship involves human to have a part in determination in regard to their lives such as the environmental, social and educational”. This report describes the three main factors that relate to global citizenship including human rights, culture, and peace. It also provides possible solutions concerning global citizenship from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Amnesty International USA (2010) views the definition of human rights as follows “Human rights are general rights and independence that people are permitted to irrespectively of nationality, religion, language and competition. It also provides citizen and political rights including the right of liberty, social and culture”. At present, people live in a globalized world so they have more rights and duties than in the past. For example, in Ancient Greece people from many neighboring countries became slaves because the Greek did not care about the rights of others nationalities. However, the present concept of global citizenship converts the opinion of civil to consider people from other countries because people do not live in one country alone, but in the world as a