Oxygen
Water
Earth
Animals
Stimuli
Purpose
Reproduction
Social interactions
Food
Knowledge
Experience
Mutual understanding
Love (people, themselves, work...)
Human Rights: “rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.” (United Nations)
Because you are human, you have rights. No matter identity or status, you will have rights.
E.g. right to life, right to education, right to free speech, right to vote, right to not be treated as a slave
Human rights are “rights” because we need them to survive and/or thrive!
In reality, you don’t choose your human rights
Being born a human, you have human rights by virtue of being human!
4 qualities of human rights IIIU:
Inviolable: Cannot be violated
Inalienable: No one cannot be taken away
Indivisible: All human rights are of equal status
Universal: Everyone is entitled to them
Inviolable:
cannot be infringed anytime
E.g. a state cannot make a decision that stray away from fundamental human rights or limit the human right in any way.
Any document that tries to do that would be invalid according to international law
Inalienable:
no one can take them away
Indivisible:
all human rights have equal status and cannot be ranked in importance – denial of one right impedes enjoyment of other rights.
Universal:
everyone is entitled to them