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Human Rights is jeez that's a good
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question right wow I don't even know how
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to give that definition I would probably
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have to do a little bit of homework or
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something any right that I think any
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just as a normal you know human baby the
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rights they humans have
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that's a very large debate mr. Latta
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might say adorable Homme preguntar event
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a person Anita I think a different
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opening today and I'm looking at this
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yeah
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we just taken for granted there but we
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don't even consider what they are
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human rights are the rights you have
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simply because you're human it's how you
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instinctively expect and deserve to be
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treated as a person like the right to
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live freely to speak your mind and to be
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treated as an equal there are many kinds
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of rights most apply to a certain group
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but human rights are the only ones that
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apply to absolutely everyone everywhere
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that means kids old people poor people
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basketball players garbage men rappers
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teachers Africans Indians Albanians
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Christians Muslims caballes atheist your
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mom your dad your next-door neighbor and
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you all have the exact same human rights
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in other words they're universal but the
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question remains what are they named
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human the human rights what the human
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rights are the right to live equality
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between all peoples right to religion
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their right to there supposed to be a
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list somewhere I should be aware of
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according to the United Nations there
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are a total of 30 human rights which are
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usually lumped together and called
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simply human rights they're all listed
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out in a Universal Declaration of Human
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Rights which is the world's most widely
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accepted document on the subject but it
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was a long time in coming
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at first there were no human rights if
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you were in with the right crowd you
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were safe if you weren't you weren't but
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then a guy named Cyrus the Great decided
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to change all that after conquering
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babylon he did something completely
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revolutionary he announced that all
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slaves were free to go
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he also said people had the freedom to
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choose their religion no matter what
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crowd they were a part of they
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documented his words on a clay tablet
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known as the Cyrus cylinder and just
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like that human rights of World War the
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idea spread quickly to Greece to India
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and eventually to Rome they noticed that
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people naturally followed certain laws
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even if they weren't told to they called
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this natural law but it kept getting
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trampled on by those in power not until
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a thousand years later in England too
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they finally get a king to agree that no
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one can overrule the rights to people
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not even a king people's rights were
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finally recognized and they were now
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safe from those in power kind of it
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still took a bunch of British rebels
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declaring their independence before the
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king at the point that all men are
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created equal which isn't to say he
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liked the idea but he couldn't stop them
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and America was born
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the French immediately followed with
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their own revolution for their own
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rights their list was even longer and
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they insisted that these rights weren't
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just made up they were natural the Roman
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concept of natural law had become
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natural rights unfortunately not
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everyone was so thrilled in France a
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general named Napoleon decided to
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overthrow the new French democracy and
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crown himself emperor of the world he
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almost succeeded but the countries of
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Europe joined forces and defeated him
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human rights was again a hot topic they
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drew up international agreements broadly
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granting many rights across Europe but
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only across Europe the rest of the world
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somehow still didn't qualify instead
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they got invaded conquered and consumed
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by Europe's massive empires but then a
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young lawyer from India decided enough
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was enough
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his name was Mahatma Gandhi and in the
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face of violence he insisted that all
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people of earth had rights not just in
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Europe eventually even Europeans started
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to agree but it wasn't gonna be that
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easy two world wars erupted Hitler
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exterminated half the Jewish population
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of Earth in horrifying Nazi death camps
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it all told 90 million people died never
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had human rights been so terrifyingly
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close to extinction and never the world
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been more desperate for change so the
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countries of Earth banded together and
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formed the United Nations their basic
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purpose was to reaffirm faith in
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fundamental human rights in the dignity
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and worth of the human person but what
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were human rights were they the
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proclamations of Cyrus the natural laws
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of Rome the declarations of France
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everyone seemed to have a slightly
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different idea of what human rights
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should be but under the supervision of
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Eleanor Roosevelt they finally agreed on
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a set of Rights that apply to absolutely
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the Universal Declaration of Human
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Rights the French concept of natural
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rights had finally become human rights
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so in summary at first only a few lucky
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people had any rights until one of those
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guys decided hey other people should
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have some rights too which was great
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except not everyone agreed and it only
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took a few thousand years of fighting
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and declarations and more fighting until
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everyone finally agreed that human
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rights should apply to everyone and they
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all lived happily ever after except for
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one little problem
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if people have the right to food and
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shelter
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why are 16,000 children dying of
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starvation every day one every five
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seconds if people have freedom of speech
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why are thousands in prison for speaking
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their minds
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if people have the right to education
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why are over a billion adults unable to
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read if slavery has truly been abolished
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why are 27 million people still enslaved
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today more than twice as many as in 1800
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the fact is when it was signed the
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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did not have the force of law it was
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optional and despite many more documents
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conventions treaties and laws it's still
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a little more than words on a page so
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the question is who will make those
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words a reality when dr. King marched
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for racial equality he was marching for
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rights that had been guaranteed by the
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United Nations for almost two decades
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but still she marched when Nelson
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Mandela stood up for social justice in
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the 1990s his country had already agreed
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to abolish such discrimination for
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almost 40 years but still he fought
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those who fight today Against Torture
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poverty and discrimination are not
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Giants or superheroes they're people
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kids mothers fathers teachers
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free-thinking individuals who refuse to
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be silent who realize that human rights
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are not a history lesson they're not
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words on a page they're not speeches or
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commercials or PR campaigns they are the
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choices we make every day as human
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beings they are the responsibility we
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all share to respect each other to help
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each other and to protect those in need
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as Eleanor Roosevelt said we're after
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all do universal human rights begin in
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small places close to home so close and
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so small but they cannot be seen on any
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maps of the world yet they are the world
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of the individual person the
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neighborhood he lives in the school or
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college he attends the factory farm or
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office where he works
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such are the places where every man
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woman and child seeks equal justice
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equal opportunity equal dignity without
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discrimination
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unless these rights have mean their they
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have little meaning anywhere
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