12/5/12 What are Human Rights What are human rights? Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings‚ whatever our nationality‚ place of residence‚ sex‚ national or ethnic origin‚ colour‚ religion‚ language‚ or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. T hese rights are all interrelated‚ interdependent and indivisible. Universal human rights are often expressed and guaranteed by law‚ in the forms of treaties‚ customary international law
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“Human Rights” Human rights refer to the "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled." Examples of rights and freedoms which have come to be commonly thought of as human rights include civil and political rights‚ such as the right to life and liberty‚ freedom of expression‚ and equality before the law; and economic‚ social and cultural rights‚ including the right to participate in culture‚ the right to food‚ the right to work‚ and the right to education. All human beings are born
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Allowing Prisoners Voting Rights For many years‚ the decision to allow prisoners to vote has been a wide spread controversial issue. The controversy has been popular in the United States and the United Kingdom. When prisoners are sent to prison they are there to serve their time and they are usually stripped of all their rights and no longer contribute to a functional society. This includes the right to vote. They are convicts‚ but does that make it okay to take their rights entirely? Some may think
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it so hard to identify rights that are truly truly universal? It is possible that there is no such thing as rights that are Universal. Rights usually have a cultural context. Philosophers have thought‚ spoken and written about human rights for thousands of years‚ but it is only in comparative recent years that these rights have been codified. Since the Second World War the major document embodying aspirations on human rights is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The murder of millions
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What do human rights have to do with HIV and AIDS? Human rights are inextricably linked with the spread and impact of HIV on individuals and communities around the world. A lack of respect for human rights fuels the spread and exacerbates the impact of the disease‚ while at the same time HIV undermines progress in the realisation of human rights. This link is apparent in the disproportionate incidence and spread of the disease among certain groups which‚ depending on the nature of the epidemic and
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February 2012 Moral Rights In this information sheet we give an overview of the “moral rights” of individual creators under the Copyright Act. These rights were introduced in December 2000. Moral rights for performers are discussed in our information sheet Performersʼ Rights. For detailed information‚ see our practical guide‚ also called Moral Rights. These rights are also discussed in our books Film & Copyright‚ Architects & Copyright and Photographers: Copyright & Moral Rights. For information about
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Right to Counsel CJA/364 Right to Counsel Having a Right to counsel is a privilege that should be an option to any citizen that has committed and arrested for a crime that they may or may not have committed. The Right to Counsel comes from the last part of the sixth amendment that states “to have the assistance of counsel for his defense”. In this essay the development of the right to counsel‚ when the right to council attaches to criminal procedures‚ the right to self-representation
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Miranda Rights Everyone has heard the term Miranda Rights‚ whether that be when taking a law class‚ during the course of a television show‚ or perhaps through personal experience with their use‚ but what do these two words really mean‚ where did they come from and how to they apply to an individual’s everyday life? The answers to this question are neither simple nor fully answered today‚ as challenges to Miranda Rights appear in courtrooms routinely. However‚ the basis for Miranda Rights can be
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Human rights refer to the natural or basic rights and freedoms to which all people are entitled to. Traditionally‚ the rights and freedoms of citizens were protected by an Act of Parliament or by the judges in developing the common law. Prior to World War II‚ the convention for the protection of human right and freedom was drafted in 1950s by the Council of Europe. It was drafted because of disgust with fascism and an anxiety to protect basic freedom. On 1953‚ it has developed to become an international
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2. RIGHTS ISSUE: A rights issue is an issue of rights to buy additional securities of a company`s existing security holders. With the issued rights‚ existing security-holders have the privilege to buy a specified number of new securities from the firm at a specified price within a specified time. Rights of issue are an invitation to the existing shareholder in the market to purchase additional shares of the company at a lower price. The shareholders receive certain rights as they are already
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