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Our Common Human Rights

This web-publication is based on a book written by Martin Scheinin L.L.D and published by the Finnish United Nations Association. It came out in the year of 1998 among other activities to point out the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The book contains basic data about the most significant human rights bodies and organisations. There are links for searching for more information. In addition there are exercises linking up with the issues of each chapter. These can be used for human rights education for example at schools. This book -Our Common Human Rights- aims at clarifying the origin and background of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights itself and the key human rights. This book presents the structures and organisations that prepare, agree upon and monitor human rights both on an international and a European level.

Declaration of Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted on 10 December 1948

Universal rights and New Zealanders

“There is no single model of democracy, or of human rights, or of cultural expression for all the world. But for all the world, there must be democracy, human rights and free cultural expression… The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, far from insisting on uniformity, is the basic condition for global diversity. That is its great power. That is its lasting value. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrines and illuminates global pluralism and diversity. It is the standard for an emerging era in which communication and collaboration between States and peoples will determine their success and survival.”
Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General

   The Universal Declaration of Human rights influences New Zealand - and New Zealand influenced the Declaration

The international law of human rights establishes principles, standards and goals for the relationship between a state, individuals and communities.
Basic rules

All societies, religions and cultures have dwelt on the issue of what rights and responsibilities an individual has within his or her community, what he or she can do to others, and what power a government may legitimately exercise over individuals and groups.
Universal declaration

Adopted in the aftermath of the Second World War, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights marked the first occasion that a world organisation (the United Nations) articulated and agreed a common set of rights – civil, political, economic, social and cultural – to which people everywhere are entitled. Its adoption was a landmark event signalling that human rights are a matter of legitimate international concern.
Equal rights

The Declaration constitutes “a common standard of achievement for all people and all nations” based on “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family” as “the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world”. Many societies have gone further and included these principles and rights in their national constitutional arrangements.
The Declaration regards all rights – civil, political, economic, social and cultural – as indivisible as well as universal; that is, they are deemed to be of equal importance being interdependent and interrelated, and therefore requiring the same level of protection.
Sustainable development

Today, there is also a growing acknowledgement of the relationship between governance, human development and human rights.
Recently, in a publication called Development and Human Rights: The Role of the World Bank, the World Bank wrote: “By placing the dignity of every human being – especially the poorest – at the very foundation of its approach to development, the Bank helps people in every part of the world build lives of purpose and hope.”
A recent UN Development Programme (UNDP) annual Human Development Report is devoted entirely to the relationship between human rights and development. In his Foreword, Mark Malloch Brown, the head of UNDP, writes: “[A] broad vision of human rights must be entrenched to achieve sustainable human development. When adhered to in practice as well as principle, [human rights and sustainable human development] make up a self-reinforcing virtuous circle.”
Today, there is increasing recognition of the close relationship between governance, human development and human rights.
Evolving understanding

As with other historic documents, our understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights evolves with the passage of time. The Declaration is animated by a sense of the dignity and well-being of all individuals and communities.
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This article is taken from the report on the Re-Evaluation of the Human Rights Protections in New Zealand, commissioned by then Justice Minister Margaret Wilson from former Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade senior legal adviser Bill Mansfield and others

Germany contributes to the protection of human rights with projects and initiatives worldwide

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The General Assembly of the United ­Nations (UN) proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948. In addition to the Pre­amble, it contains 30 Articles that guarantee the universal freedoms and rights of every individual human being irre­spective of nationality, sex, language, religion, political opinion or social origin. The basic rights named in the Declaration include the right to life, liberty and secur­ity of person, the right to education, ­freedom of thought, conscience and religion, freedom of opinion and expression. They also encompass the right to work, the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution as well as freedom from fear, hardship, ­torture and slavery. The Declaration, which itself has no binding character ­under international law and is automatically accepted by every new member state on accession to the United Nations, forms the foundation of international ­human rights protection together with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International ­Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 10 December has been ­considered international Human Rights Day since 1948.

German Human Rights Projects

Germany has signed all the main treaties of the European Union, the Council of Europe and the United Nations on the protection of human rights. Germany contributes to the protection of human rights with projects and initiatives worldwide. In Central Asia, for example, the establishment of a human rights dialogue between the EU and the countries of the region within the framework of the EU-Central Asia strategy is founded on a German initiative in 2007. On a bilateral level, in Kazakhstan, for example, Germany has supported freedom of information and the press as well as projects against human trafficking and torture and contributed to ensuring that the death penalty is only imposed for terrorist acts and serious crimes committed during wartime through initiatives such as a round table made up of government and civil society representatives.

In its support for the reconstruction effort in Iraq, Germany has financed and organized human rights seminars for Iraqi judicial officers. The Berlin Centre for the Treatment of Torture Victims (BZFO) has developed an Internet-based platform for treating traumatized civil war refugees in Iraq. In various regions of the world Germany is also engaged in efforts to recognize the human right of access to clean drinking water and basic sanitary facilities. In Kenya, for example, Germany is backing the government in its reform of the water sector – and thus also the development of an improved water supply infrastructure. In Africa, Germany has been supporting a supraregional project against female gen­ital mutilation since 1999. The populations of Burkina Faso, Benin, Mali, Mauritania and Kenya are being informed of the neg­ative consequences of female genital mu­tilation and attempts made to convince them to give up this practice.

United Nations Human Rights Council

The United Nations is the most important organization supporting respect for ­human rights worldwide. The United ­Nations did not only define the protection of human rights as one of its main aims in Article 1 of its Charter, but also ­created a special body for this purpose: the Human Rights Council based in ­Geneva. It is the United Nations’s central political body for dialogue and cooperation on human rights issues and replaced the Commission on Human Rights in 2006 to strengthen the human rights work of the United Nations. The 47 ­elected member states of the Council primarily consult on how the protection of human rights can be improved and ­discuss the human rights situation in ­individual countries. The most import­ant foundations for their work are the Uni­versal Declaration of Human Rights and the six international human rights ­treaties with their supplementary protocols. Germany was elected to the new body for three years on 9 May 2006.

Round Table 2: Overcoming Discrimination to Realize Human Rights and Dignity for All

"Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status." (Art.2, Universal Declaration of Human Rights).

People are discriminated against for various reasons including race, color, descent, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, language, religion, political opinion, social origin, property, disability, birth or any other status. Factors such as violence, impunity, social exclusion and extreme poverty exacerbate the vulnerability of discriminated groups. Human rights treaties and instruments have affirmed the principles of equality and non-discrimination and require that states and non-state actors take affirmative action. However, in practice, many countries continue to allow discrimination. The aim of the rights-based approach to discrimination is to ensure the active participation of discriminated persons, and to empower them and make them actors of change. Recognizing the success of many discriminated groups in claiming their rights and becoming empowered agents of change, this roundtable will highlight their efforts, in particular the actions they have taken through the UN human rights mechanisms. Panelists will also identify strategies for fostering global ethics by forming partnerships across sectors.