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From the time you are born in this world you, as a human being, are vested with rights that will allow you to have a descent and civilized life. But how aware are we when it comes to knowing our rights? Are the rights given to others and are the rights given to you the same? The concept of Human Rights might be too vast to comprehend for some. But the simple understanding about these is that human rights is just a part of the law that is being enforced on every country to protect any individual from being abused or reprimanded  by those  who are vested with power.

Human Rights Law is a law that protects the rights that are innate in a person without regardless of his race, color, religion, nationality, gender and age. The law makes sure that all of the people’s rights are respected by others especially of those persons who are vested with authority and power by other laws. This law also provides the enumerated rights that are only applicable to certain sectors that are known to have the most vulnerability when it comes to the abuse of their rights.

Human rights law is something that has been overlooked by previous civilizations for a long time. In the past, human rights are just for certain classes of people. People who were considered as slaves are stripped of all of their rights to be human and wouldn’t even consider claiming for back pain compensation despite all the heavy lifting they had to do. They were stripped of their right to own property, their freedom to be treated as possessions and their right to be free from oppression discrimination and physical abuses. The importance of the laws on human right wasn’t recognized until years after the Second World War.

The acceptance of the universal declaration of human rights in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly started to mandate every government of its member countries to put importance to any cases involving violations of human rights and protect it. Today almost all of the countries in the world had established human rights as a permanent part of their government and includes it in the articles of their state constitution.

To consider it generally Human Rights is a very important part of man’s life and to maintain it, each and everyone must work together and commit to the dictates of it. By learning how to respect the rights of others you will be assured that your rights as a human being will also be respected.