‘We cannot succeed when half of us are held back’ How true is this quote by Malala Yousafzai and how does this relate to Human Rights violations?
It’s hard to define what human rights are; there is just too much to consider. Generally, human rights are simply referred to as the rights a human has. Of course, there are heaps of rights worldwide aimed towards certain groups of people; however, human rights are the only set of rights that are applied to everyone, universally. That includes everyone ‘…without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status’(un.org). While there have been some improvements over the past few decades, human …show more content…
As human beings, everyone is entitled to all the rights guaranteed by the UDHR. Yet, women and children in particular, are being restricted and marginalised from going to school. Their right to education is continuously being denied and this has become endemic; each day, terrible abuses and acts of violence against these children and girls, build up fear in today’s society. No country has the right to violate this right regardless of ‘…race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status’(un.org). Even so, this law has been broken and it continues to be violated all around the world on a daily basis. In April 2014, Boko Haram, an Islamic Jihadist and terrorist organization kidnapped 276 female students from the Government Secondary School in Nigeria, simply because they were being educated. The terrorist group Boko Haram are against western education; hence the name ‘Boko Haram’ meaning western education is sinful. They have clearly abused their right to education. Children living in the slums of India have little or no education as they are not known to the Government. Due to constant discrimination against children from the most marginalised and vulnerable communities, children refuse to attend school. And those very few children from the slums, who are accepted and welcomed into a school, often choose work over education. Over and over again, these financial and social barriers deny slum dwellers the opportunity to complete their rudimentary education. Their denial of education is also a gross violation of many rights enshrined in the UDHR. When half of us are being denied education, we are unable to develop fundamental knowledge or understanding in order to succeed in
It’s hard to define what human rights are; there is just too much to consider. Generally, human rights are simply referred to as the rights a human has. Of course, there are heaps of rights worldwide aimed towards certain groups of people; however, human rights are the only set of rights that are applied to everyone, universally. That includes everyone ‘…without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status’(un.org). While there have been some improvements over the past few decades, human …show more content…
As human beings, everyone is entitled to all the rights guaranteed by the UDHR. Yet, women and children in particular, are being restricted and marginalised from going to school. Their right to education is continuously being denied and this has become endemic; each day, terrible abuses and acts of violence against these children and girls, build up fear in today’s society. No country has the right to violate this right regardless of ‘…race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status’(un.org). Even so, this law has been broken and it continues to be violated all around the world on a daily basis. In April 2014, Boko Haram, an Islamic Jihadist and terrorist organization kidnapped 276 female students from the Government Secondary School in Nigeria, simply because they were being educated. The terrorist group Boko Haram are against western education; hence the name ‘Boko Haram’ meaning western education is sinful. They have clearly abused their right to education. Children living in the slums of India have little or no education as they are not known to the Government. Due to constant discrimination against children from the most marginalised and vulnerable communities, children refuse to attend school. And those very few children from the slums, who are accepted and welcomed into a school, often choose work over education. Over and over again, these financial and social barriers deny slum dwellers the opportunity to complete their rudimentary education. Their denial of education is also a gross violation of many rights enshrined in the UDHR. When half of us are being denied education, we are unable to develop fundamental knowledge or understanding in order to succeed in