Lecture 1- overview of human rights
What Are Human Rights?
• Defined as those rights which are essential in the nature and without it we cannot live as
human beings.
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms allow us to fully develop and use our human
qualities to satisfy our material and spiritual needs.
The Universal Declarationof Human Rights (UDHR)
• Basic International Pronouncement of the Inalienable Rights of All Members of the Human
Society
UDHR _ Civil & Political Rights
• Civil Rights
o right to life
o right to believe (religion)
o right to your own opinion
o right to free speech
o right to marry
