BASIC CONCEPTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

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OVERVIEW

        “Right” can be defined as a person’s entitlement to certain things. A right is an entitlement that we are justified in making. Any human being as a part of humanity is entitled to have certain rights and the state must take necessary steps for their protection. Natural rights identified human freedoms and equality from which other human rights are resultant. A person’s right implies other person’s Duty in other words every right of an individual involves a corresponding duty of others.

OBJECTIVES

• Natural rights
• Difference between natural rights and legal rights
• Relationship between rights and duties
• Concept of Human Rights

INTRODUCTION

      Liberation – Little Sparrow

Stay liberated like this Little Sparrow

In eight directions, it flies and roams,

Into the air, it ascends; swims rapidly through,

In measureless abundance lay,

The sky awash in light, is the nectar it savours,

Converse felicity with the she-sparrow, in exultation;

Free of affliction, build a nest

Nurture the hatchling that emerges from the egg and rejoice,

Frist feed the youngling, engulf in love,

From the yards of homes and open fields,

Gather the grains that are found, bring home and partake;

In other times, tell stories and slumber; afterward

Long before dawn, sing a song and wake up

            By Bharathiyar.

TO UNDERSTAND THE ABOVE POEM, WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS RIGHT?

DEFINITION OF RIGHTS:

            “Right” can be defined as person’s entitlement to certain things. A right is an entitlement that we are justified in making. I have a right to enter a land if I am the owner of the said land to the exclusion of others. Accordingly the person who is having a positive rights sanctioned to provision of some goods or services. HOLLAND stated: “Every right implies the active or passive restraint by others of the wishes of the party having the right.”  The restriction on the part of others is called a duty. A moral duty is that which is demanded by the civic opinion of the society and a legal duty is that which is enforced by the state.

To be continued..