What Are Human Rights?

If you were to ask people in the street, "What are human rights?" you would get many different answers. They would tell you the rights they know about. But very few people know all their rights.

A right is a freedom of some kind. It is sth to which you are entitled.

There are different kinds of rights. If a person belongs to a particular group, he has certain rights as a member of that group. If he is an American, he has the right to vote in an American election, but he does not have the right to vote in an election in France. A Frenchman has the right to vote in France but not in the United States.

Human rights, however, are the rights to which everyone is entitled--no matter who they are or where they live--simply because they are a human being.

"To be continued..."; thus stay tuned.

Source: Youth for Human Rights International