Human rights
Human dignity is the fundamental principle of human rights
- dignity -equality - respect
All peapole must be respected because they're human beings, it doesen't matter their:
-sex -religion -race -disability and if they are citzen or not
Human rights are things that every person should have or be able
to do to live a good life with respect and security.
Our human rights were written down for the first time in 1945 in a
document called Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
DO WE ENJOY THE SAME RIGHTS???
• 1/3 of the world's population is under 18 years old.
• 9 out of 10 children live in developing countries.
• In developing countries, almost 1/3 of children under the age of five are hungry.
• More than ten million children die before the age of five every year.
• Nearly one in three people in the world cannot read or write.
• About 250 million children, aged 5 to 14, work. Half of them work full time.
• Of the 140 million children in developing countries who don’t attend primary school, about 60 % are girls.
• Approximately 250,000 children under the age of 18 served in wars in 1995 and 1996.
Children enjoy many of the rights that adults do in international human rights
treaties.
Children are young, sometimes weak, so they need special protection to
enjoy their human rights.
At the beginning of the 20th century, some activists started to say that children should have rights.
In 1924 the first International Declaration of the rights of the child was written.
An expanded version of this was adopted by the United Nations in 1959.