Human Right and Violation

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In today’s class, we will be talking about human right and violation. Enjoy the class!

Human Right and Violation

Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death. They apply regardless of where you are from, what you believe or how you choose to live your life. They can never be taken away, although they can sometimes be restricted for example if a person breaks the law, or in the interests of national security.

These basic rights are based on shared values like dignity, fairness, equality, respect and independence. Its values are defined and protected by law.

They protect you in many areas of your day-to-day life, including:

Your right:

• to have and express your own opinions
• to an education
• not to be mistreated or wrongly punished by the state
• to a private and family life

Violation

An action that breaks or against something, especially a law, agreement, principle, or something that should be treated with respect.

Ways to prevent your rights from violations

An action that breaks or against something, especially a law, agreement, principle, or something that should be treated with respect.

1. Know your rights:

The first way to prevent human rights violation is adequate knowledge of human rights. As we all know, information and knowledge, they say is power. What do we mean by know your rights? it simply means that you have to possess the knowledge of human rights and equally know what to do and where to go to seek redress if your rights are violated.

2. Never give bribe:

One of the easiest ways to get violated is giving bribes. It would interest you to know that, if you give bribe once to get favour, you are likely to give bribe over and over again to get anything done even if you are not required or demanded to do so. Therefore, if you have given bribe once and for any reason, you refused to give bribe another time due to whatever reason, you are likely to be violated by your previous collaborators.

3. Insist on your rights:

In this part of the world, I have encountered many people who are of the view that insisting on your rights is like wasting your time because you stand to lose more than you gain. However, what they didn’t know is that, when you insist on your rights, It can’t be a waste of time, but instead, you are rather making the other person accountable and insisting on the right thing. The time you invest in insisting on your rights can be said to be a time devoted to public service for your own good and the general good of the society.

4. Educate the violator:

If people are allowed to do the wrong thing unchallenged over and over again, they later see such actions as being a right. This means that once violating others becomes part and parcel of people, their ability to see it as something wrong dies naturally. Therefore, when you encounter a prospective violator or a confirmed violator, educate them. When you educate a violator, you are indirectly appealing to his or her raw emotions and raising their dead conscience. This is in addition to the fact that you will always insist on your rights and never give in to being violated.

5. Never let go when you are violated:

When you are violated by whoever, never let go, write letters, short notes on social media, talk to the media, approach the authority to complain and seek redress. If need be, engage the service of a lawyer or meet human rights organizations for assistance. Note that, if you are violated once, you are likely to be violated over and over again, but accepting such violation is like accepting failure, never accept failure. Continue to challenge it until you defeat it and get justice.

 

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