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Freedom for all. THE HUMAN RIGHTS STORY. The journey begins…. Human rights are the rights and freedoms we all have because we are human. The journey begins….
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Freedom for all THE HUMAN RIGHTS STORY
The journey begins… Human rights are the rights and freedoms we all have because we are human.
The journey begins… Although international agreement on human rights was reached in 1948 (after World War 2), ideas about human rights go back much further. Central to the notion of human rights is the idea that all human beings have dignity and are worthy of respect, and fair and equal treatment by each other – including their rulers.
Questions ? • Who has heard of the ‘Golden Rule’? • What does it mean? • Why do you think it’s found in so many human cultures? What is this ‘Golden Rule’ found across cultures and religions?
...love your neighbour as yourself Leviticus 19:18
“Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire” Confucius 551 BC – 479 BC
God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27
Cicero (106-43 BC) Universal justice and law Ages before any written law existed or any state had been established Directions to act justly Be of service to others Binds all human society Eternal and unchangeable law... valid for all nations and all times
“There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither slave nor freeman, there can be neither male nor female – for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28
Magna Carta 1215 “No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or [dispossessed] or exiled or in any way destroyed... except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.” “To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice.”
English Bill of Rights 1688 “the...Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in Parlyament assembled... vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberties”
John Locke1632-1704 Every individual person ‘in the state of nature’ has certain ‘natural rights’. This applies to ‘common humanity’ and ‘governments all through the world’. Second treatise of Government, 1690
Thomas Paine1737–1809 A key influence in the American and French Revolutions. “The Rights of Man”
Thomas Jefferson1743 – 1826 “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776
The French Revolution 1789 “All men are born and remain free, and have equal rights” Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen “A single confused page...that outweighed libraries and was stronger than the armies of Napoleon” Lord Acton
Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797
Olympe de Gouges1748 -1793 “Woman is born free and remains equal to man in her rights”. Declaration on the Rights of Women and Citizen, 1791.
The Aotearoa New Zealand connection “Her Majesty the Queen of England extends to the Natives of New Zealand Her royal protection and imparts to them all the Rights and Privileges of British Subjects.”
Samuel Parnell 1810 - 1890 “We have twenty-four hours per day given us; eight of these should be for work, eight for sleep, and the remaining eight for recreation and in which for men to do what little things they want for themselves.” 1840
Kate Sheppard 1810 - 1890 “All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome."
Qiu Jin1875-1907 “We want our emancipation! Men and women are born equal, why should we let men hold sway?”
W.E.B. Du Bois First Pan-African Congress 1900 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1909
Otago Witness “If there is one subject on which there is acute feeling... it is the recognition of the coloured races….though the American Declaration of Independence begins by asserting all men are born equal in the sight of God, it makes no mention of niggers and Japanese.” 1919 editorial
“a peace ...which will afford assurance that all the men in all lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want” Atlantic Charter 14 August 1941
“complete victory...is essential...to preserve human rights and justice in their own lands as well as in other lands” 1 January 1942
“Every person, whatever his level of academic ability, whether he be rich or poor, whether he live in town or country, has a right as a citizen to a free education of the kind for which he is best fitted and to the fullest extent of his powers.”
“Human rights principles are not platitudes. They must be honoured, because thousands have died for them.” Peter Fraser, PM, 1944
“We the Peoples of the United Nations... Determined...to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small.... The Purposes of the United Nations are.... to achieve international cooperation...in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights.... [T]he United Nations shall promote...universal respect for, and observance of, human rights.”
Statement of Essential Human Rights Drafted by a Committee representing principal cultures of the world, appointed by the American Law Institute Distributed by AMERICANS UNITED FOR WORLD ORGANIZATION, INC. 465 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, N.Y. 1944
American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man [adopted by the Ninth International Conference of American States, 1948] The American peoples have acknowledged the dignity of the individual, and their national constitutions recognize that juridical and political institutions, which regulate life in human society, have as their principal aim the protection of the essential rights of man and the creation of circumstances that will permit him to achieve spiritual and material progress and attain happiness; All men are born free and equal, in dignity and in rights, and, being endowed by nature with reason and conscience, they should conduct themselves as brothers one to another. The fulfillment of duty by each individual is a prerequisite to the rights of all.
“a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations” “every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance”
