Portal:Human rights

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Human rights refers to the concept of human beings as having universal rights, or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction, and likewise other localizing factors, such as ethnicity and nationality. Philosophically, human rights can be based on social contract theories, conceptions of natural rights, or a combination thereof.

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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal liberty given to all citizens by law. Civil rights are distinguished from "human rights" or "natural rights"; civil rights are rights that persons do have, while natural or human rights are rights that many scholars think that people should have. For example, the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) argued that the natural rights of life, liberty, and property should be converted into civil rights and protected by the sovereign state as an aspect of the social contract. Others have argued that people acquire rights as an inalienable gift from a god or at a time of nature before governments were formed.

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A photograph of a child soldier in the American Civil War, taken in Tennessee. Today, the use of children in warfare is considered to be unacceptable by the international community. Human Rights Watch estimates that about 300,000 children are currently serving as soldiers throughout the world[1].

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Devanagari: गांधी; Gujarati: મોહનદાસ; October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) was a prominent political and spiritual leader of India and its struggle for independence from the British Empire. He was the pioneer[2] and perfector of Satyagraha - the resistance of tyranny through mass civil disobedience strongly founded upon ahinsa (total non-violence) - which led India to independence, and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known and addressed in India and across the world as Mahatma Gandhi (from Sanskrit, Mahatma:Great Soul) and as Bapu (in many Indian languages, Father). Read more...

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  • "Human rights in the sense of human solidarity has created a new universal and equal language going beyond racial, gender, ethnic or religious boundaries. That is why we consider it a doorway to dialogue for people of all socio-cultural groups and all ideologies." - Munir Said Thalib
  • If you're not ready to die for it, put the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary. - Malcolm X
  • The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. - Aung San Suu Kyi
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