Quick history of The Human Rights

As we all know The Human Rights are rights that every human being is entitled to.  The right for equality, freedom from discrimination, freedom from slavery, freedom of torture and degrading treatment, the right to be reconditioned as a person in front of the law, the right for education, right to marriage and family are just a few of the human rights. They do seem logical but before they were put to paper each and every one of them at some point in time has been broken and withheld from groups of people.

In the USA the most commonly known breach of these human rights was the slavery of African-American people. From fighting the Civil War to the Washington Civil Rights March, African-Americans fought against slavery, segregation, discrimination and for the right of freedom. But these rights haven’t been established just in the USA they are worldwide known and not only known but very well understood as well as the need for them to exist.

World War II was one of the most devastating periods humans have ever lived to see and the biggest and most horrifying breaches of The Human Rights. Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany had a politic that Europe was denying Germans their living space by having countries like Austria and Czechoslovakia emerge, where many Germans lived. So, he started his Nazi propaganda based on racial grouping or The Master Aryan race which is superior to all other races, in which, according to his propagandas Germans belonged. And as such separations between humans began, so did the propaganda that inferior races such as Jews, Roma and people with disabilities are nothing and have no rights. The hatred, the separation between people and his dictatorship led to the biggest massacre of humans and human rights that ever existed – the concentration camps in which 6 million Jews died. And that wasn’t all, Hitler had planned to reduce not only the population of Jews but also the population of Europe for about 30 million people through starvation. Luckily, he didn’t get to execute all of his horrific plans. At the beginning of the war, he and the Nazi Party were fighting to dominate Europe and five years later he was fighting for his existence.

At the end of the World War II, the world was a mess and in need of hope that such atrocities in the world will never be committed again. And so the United Nation brought The Universal Declaration of Human Rights according to which every human being has a right to freedom of speech and to live in a peaceful environment.

Instead of deepening the separation between people, we should strive to close it.

Separation, segregation, and discrimination can lead us all on a dangerous path as history itself shows us. It is time to stop this circle and see each others and ourselves as what we truly are, a person that is on its journey as well as everyone else on this planet.

Nothing more and nothing less.