BEITZ'S HUMAN RIGHTS

Summery for Beitz's Idea of Human Rights

Summery for Beitz's Idea of Human Rights

Introduction

The rights to life and liberty, to freedom of expression and opinion, to participation in government and choice of employment, and to private property and general security in one's person—these are just some of the rights that people around the globe have come to recognize as human rights—those rights that all individuals have simply by virtue of their very humanity; rights that we expect all societies to guarantee to their citizens irrespective of a person's race, religion, gender, sexuality, or ethnicity; rights that we should have no matter where we live or who we are. Understood as universal and inalienable, human rights have come to represent a common standard, a set of international norms against which we measure the actions of governments and the practices of communities. They have come to function as the grounds on which we challenge particular policies and actions of states and the basis upon which we demand change or imagine a different, better future. With all that they do, with all that we expect from them, it is not surprising that human rights are cherished the world over.

Discussion

In general, rights refer to as things which are permissible which the government as well as the people around also accept. The basic right every individual has being a human, which can be neither created nor destroyed by the government of any state refers to as human rights. These rights generally have a concern with matters such as, freedom of life, privacy, freedom of thoughts and expressions and so forth. In United Kingdom, the prevailing law and European legislation accepts human rights as a result of pervious issues of racial and religious discrimination, which also took place in the recent years.

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