1. Heart of being human, HUMAN RIGHTS

1. What are human rights?

The human rights are those rights wich every single one has got simply for being human. It's true that they are not always respected, but it shouldn't be like this. In my opinion, and I think that in general too, human rights were created to get that every one, wherever they live, could be protected and could live without fears. Currently, if I have a look at my town and also at my country I can think that they are respected, but it's incredible how people live in other countries, likeI srael for example, where its seems that nobody has heard about them.

2. When did human rights start?

Human rights started after the second world war, aproximately in 1948; but it was on 1976 when it became an international law. In my opinion they start because of the consequences that the war had.

3. Why were they created?

Searching information I've seen that it is really how I imagined, they were created because somebody, or something had to solve the problems that the war caused. Also, we can see with the content of every human right that they were created because of avoid that those kind of problemes came again.

4. How many human rights are there?

There are thirty articles about human rights. We can stand out some important topic like the freedom, the fact of being protected or simply, the right to life.

5. Wich human right are you not familiar with?

I'm not much familiar with the article which says that everyone have got the right of leave from a country and migrate to another whenever he want. I think that I didn't know it before because I've always thought that there are a lot of people who cannot immigrate and migrate to other countries freely; and maybe this is not always respected because in some occasions we can see people, specially from Africa, who wants to come to our country in order to solve diferent things, like get an employment, and finally, they have to go again to their native country.

6. (The fact of live in peace). Is it fully respected in our country today?

At first, I think that if we have a look around us, here in Spain, we can contemplate that everything is ok, but if we set a little more, if we watch the news on television every day and if we are more interested about what happens in our country, we may see that there are a lot of people who is continuously doing the opposite of human rights wants to enact.

I’m sure that everybody in Spain has heard sometime about the gender violence. I’ve seen a lot of times pieces of news which mentions it to the extent that, currently, when we hear something related with it, we see the violence like something normal. In my opinion we have reached to a point where we can’t come back.

In this topic of the “passivity” of human rights we can also talk about the war, which is a kind of violence too, so I think that currently and luckily in Spain we haven’t get this level yet.

Finally, if I’ve got to get a conclusion of this topic, I will say that human rights aren’t fully respected in my country, because just talking about the violence, we are talking also about more human rights. For example, in a case of domestic violence, the violent member of the couple is making that the other started to feel frightened and therefore is doing that he/she couldn’t live in peace.

7. Are human rights relevant in the world today? Why?

I think that people don’t give enough importance to human rights. Currently, nobody talks about it, and there is only a small group of the population who is really worried about human rights. When we see, especially in the television, that have happened bad things related to the violence, the war or the racism, we see it like a ordinary thing which is normal and we don’t give importance at these facts; but if we think a little more of what are Human rights, we will start to understand that somebody have to solve these problems because everybody have got the right of live in peace, without fears and in good conditions.

Also, I recognize that if we had not worked on this topic in class, I would not have thought of it for days and days.