Human Rights are fundamental legal entitlement. They are rights and benefits granted by law to all human beings despite gender, socioeconomic status, nationality, geographical location, cultural background, language or any other status (Ohchr.org, 2017 ).They are based upon moral guidelines in order to recognise and respect people's dignity (Human Rights Commission,2017). Human rights support the fact that all persons are entitled to their human rights without discrimination, and are endorsed in the form of treaties, customary international law, general principles and other sources of international law (Ohchr.org, 2017).
Trade Unionism and Labour Rights are subcategories of human rights. Labour rights are are involved with negotiating the pay of workers, benefits and safe working conditions. During the industrial revolution labourers …show more content…
It is a fundamental principle in contemporary international law and is protected by Article 1 of the ICCPR and ICESCR. Its secures the state sovereignty of each nation state. With this protection in place the equality of each nation state is theoretically proposed. The right to self- determination refers to that of a people. For example, the topic of self-determination has led to much debate in Australia since 2003. An issue particularly targeted under the the topic of self determination is the ASTI group ( Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders). Many ATSI people feel they have the right to govern themselves independently from non-ATSI Australians and this is because of the vague phrasing regarding the word “people” in the ICCPR. It's argued that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 set out self-determination or at least the path towards it because of the set funds for the welfare of ATSI people. This debate, though not in the urgent topics in mainstream media, continues today. Self-determination is an issue both nationally and