The Pros And Cons Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” - Martin Luther King Jr., 1963 In response to discrimination in many parts of the world, the United Nations (1948) created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which stated that, “Human Rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language or any other status.” In other words, we are all entitled to human rights and should be equally treated. Human Rights was established in 539 B.C, the concepts of human rights were brought out to the world by The Great Cyrus, the first King of ancient Persian who once conquered the city of Babylon (United for Human rights, 2008). He demonstrated Human Rights by freeing slaves and declaring that every human-being has the rights to choose the way they wanted to live, and established racial equality (United for Human rights, 2008). The concepts of human rights keep developing over the time, until the end of World War 2 in April 1945, which was the institutional date of The United Nations. The United Nations …show more content…
Apart from the imprisonment in the United States, another evident that reveals the true side of discrimination and police brutality in the United States is deaths of African-American caused by police. The work of The Guardian (2015) reveals that African-American are more likely to be killed when they are unarmed during encounters with police as a white person. Recently, there were 102 people out of 464 Black people killed so far with the involvement of law enforcement officers and all those victims were killed unarmed (The Guardian, 2015). The number of killed unarmed Black people is 32 percent, Hispanic/Latino 25.4 percent and only 15 percent White (The