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Human Rights - College Essay

Human Rights

Part A - Introduction
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1. What are and where do they come from?

The term "human rights" is a relatively modern invention. It covers under its umbrella three different types of rights:
� the fundamental freedoms or classical civil liberties,
� ethnic and religious rights
� socio-economic rights.
Some constitutions have enumerated the first or the first and the second and attempted to set up judicial enforcement of such rights. The third category has not been stated in a constitution in an enforceable form, but some constitutions refer to them as directive principles of state policy

Civil liberties
Some constitutions contain a statement of human rights professedly in order ...

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and independent court
� freedom to enjoy lawfully acquired property
� equality of opportunity (including freedom from discrimination)
� freedom of assembly and association (including public meeting and withdrawal of labour)
� freedom of thought, conscience and religion freedom to contract
� freedom to engage in a trade, profession or occupation
freedom of movement within a nation and across national borders

Ethnic rights

Nations with multi-linguistic, multi-cultural, multi-racial and multi-religious populations may also attempt to safeguard minorities in their charter of rights. The notion of equality before the law and equal protection of the law underlies the above rights and is generally included in constitutions which have bills of rights though in a particular- situation it may be available in conjunction with some other right. The idea of equality before the law implies that persons or groups must not be discriminated against without justification. The words "without ...

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Added: 8/1/2004 05:32:04 PM
Category: Science & Nature
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