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Human rights are inherent to all humans, are universal and inalienable, and include civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights. States have obligations to respect, protect, and fulfill human rights, which means refraining from interfering, enacting laws to prevent violations, and taking active steps to enable people to enjoy their rights. In the past, human rights were considered a country's internal affair and other states could not interfere, but now states must respect individuals' human rights even from abuses by non-state actors.

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Human rights are inherent to all humans, are universal and inalienable, and include civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights. States have obligations to respect, protect, and fulfill human rights, which means refraining from interfering, enacting laws to prevent violations, and taking active steps to enable people to enjoy their rights. In the past, human rights were considered a country's internal affair and other states could not interfere, but now states must respect individuals' human rights even from abuses by non-state actors.

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Assignment: (research & all students should ask atleast 1 intelligent question )

1. Human rights-meaning & concept


2. Basic human rights principles
3. Human rights & state sovereignty
4. Obligation respect human rights
5. Obligation to protect human rights
6. Obligation to fulfill human rights

1. Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality,
ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.
Or inalienable fundamentals rights to which a person is inherently intitiled simply for being
human.
2. Human rights are universal and inalienable; indivisible; interdependent and interrelated. They
are universal because everyone is born with and possesses the same rights, regardless of where
they live, their gender or race, or their religious, cultural or ethnic background. Inalienable
because people’s rights can never be taken away. Indivisible and interdependent because all
rights—political, civil, social, cultural and economic—are equal in importance and none can be
fully enjoyed without the others.
3. In the past, when human rights were still regarded as a country’s internal affair, other States and
the international community were prevented from interfering, even in the most serious cases of
human rights violations, such as genocide.
No one else outside of your country that can tell you how to run your own

Population – a group of people who are the members or citizens of a state


Territory- The land area (with set boundaries) in which a state rules applies
Sovereignty- the ability to rule absolutely within a territory
That Means No one else outside of your country that can tell you how to run your own
Govement – A organization inside the state that controls action and policies of a state.

4. To respect a right means refraining from interfering with the enjoyment of the right.

To protect the right means enacting laws that create mechanisms to prevent violation of the
right by state authorities or by non-state actors. This protection is to be granted equally to all.

To fulfil the right means to take active steps to put in place institutions and procedures,
including the allocation of resources to enable people to enjoy the right. A rights-based
approach develops the capacity of duty-bearers to meet their obligations and encourages rights
holders to claim their rights

5 .The “obligation to respect” means that States are obliged to refrain from interfering in the
enjoyment of rights by individuals and groups. It prohibits State actions that may undermine the
enjoyment of rights. For example, with regard to the right to education, it means that
governments must respect the liberty of parents to establish private schools and to ensure the
religious and moral education of their children in accordance with their own convictions.
7 The “obligation to protect” requires States to protect individuals against abuses by non-State
actors, foreign State agents, or State agents acting outside of their official capacity. The
obligation entails both a preventative and remedial dimension. A State is thus obliged to enact
legislation protecting human rights; to take action to protect individuals when it is aware (or
could have been aware) of threats to their human rights; and also to ensure access to impartial
legal remedies when human rights violations are alleged

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