MY RIGHTS...YOUR RIGHTS - OMOLE AYOBAMI JOSEPH [O.A.J]

Human Rights Day is observed every year on
10 December. It honours the day on
which, in 1948, the United Nations General
Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights.

Human rights are moral principles or norms that
describe certain standards of human behaviour, and
are regularly protected as legal rights in municipal
and international law.(Wikipedia)

Human rights are the fundamental rights someone is entitled to because he or she is a human without putting into consideration the persons nation,language,tribe,location,religion or any other status.(OAJ)

Here in Nigeria and many other countries these following fundamental rights are been averted due to government greediness and wickedness,  poor government leadership  and its instability -

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

1. We are all free and equal. We are all born
free. We all have our own thoughts and ideas.
We should all be treated in the same way.

2. Don’t discriminate. These rights belong to
everybody, whatever our differences.

3. The right to life. We all have the right to life,
and to live in freedom and safety.

4. No slavery – past and present . Nobody has
any right to make us a slave. We cannot make
anyone our slave.

5. No Torture . Nobody has any right to hurt us
or to torture us.

6. We all have the same right to use the law . I
am a person just like you!

7. We are all protected by the law . The law is
the same for everyone. It must treat us all
fairly.

8. Fair treatment by fair courts. We can all ask
for the law to help us when we are not
treated fairly.

9. No unfair detainment. Nobody has the right
to put us in prison without a good reason and
keep us there, or to send us away from our
country.

10. The right to trial . If we are put on trial this
should be in public. The people who try us
should not let anyone tell them what to do.

11. Innocent until proven guilty. Nobody should
be blamed for doing something until it is
proven. When people say we did a bad thing
we have the right to show it is not true.

12. The right to privacy . Nobody should try to
harm our good name. Nobody has the right to
come into our home, open our letters or
bother us or our family without a good
reason.

13. Freedom to move . We all have the right to
go where we want in our own country and to
travel as we wish.

14. The right to asylum. If we are frightened of
being badly treated in our own country, we
all have the right to run away to another
country to be safe.

15. The right to a nationality. We all have the
right to belong to a country.

16. Marriage and family. Every grown-up has
the right to marry and have a family if they
want to. Men and women have the same
rights when they are married, and when they
are separated.

17. Your own things . Everyone has the right to
own things or share them. Nobody should
take our things from us without a good
reason.

18. Freedom of thought . We all have the right to
believe in what we want to believe, to have a
religion, or to change it if we want.

19. Free to say what you want . We all have the
right to make up our own minds, to think
what we like, to say what we think, and to
share our ideas with other people.

20. Meet where you like. We all have the right
to meet our friends and to work together in
peace to defend our rights. Nobody can make
us join a group if we don’t want to.

21. The right to democracy. We all have the
right to take part in the government of our
country. Every grown-up should be allowed
to choose their own leaders.

22. The right to social security . We all have the
right to affordable housing, medicine,
education, and child care, enough money to
live on and medical help if we are ill or old.

23. Workers’ rights. Every grown-up has the
right to do a job, to a fair wage for their
work, and to join a trade union.

24. The right to play. We all have the right to
rest from work and to relax.

25. A bed and some food . We all have the right
to a good life. Mothers and children, people
who are old, unemployed or disabled, and all
people have the right to be cared for.

26. The right to education . Education is a right.
Primary school should be free. We should
learn about the United Nations and how to
get on with others. Our parents can choose
what we learn.

27. Culture and copyright. Copyright is a special
law that protects one’s own artistic creations
and writings; others cannot make copies
without permission. We all have the right to
our own way of life and to enjoy the good
things that “art,” science and learning bring.

28. A free and fair world. There must be proper
order so we can all enjoy rights and freedoms
in our own country and all over the world.

29. Our responsibilities. We have a duty to
other people, and we should protect their
rights and freedoms.

30. Nobody can take away these rights and
freedoms from us.

*The List is provided by Youth For Human Rights
International, adapted and simplified from the
1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights*

Among all the rights,the most
Important to me is the Right to Education. The reason been that
it is something owned from birth of everyone to get the
education. There are numerous benefits of
getting the education. The one who is
educated has the power of changing their
own lives and the lives of others as well.

Right of education is the one that has the
foremost importance. We should be well
aware of each of these rights, many efforts
have been put in decades before to list
down and propose these rights.
We all should understand that the human
rights are those rights that are fundamental
for the living of human beings and for the
normal human existence. For every
country’s government and citizens it is very
very important to protect and maintain the
human rights. It is their  duty.
We all should avail our rights and should
dedicatedly work for creating the awareness
amongst the population about these rights.
Each of the 30 listed human rights are
necessary for our well being and existence
in the society.

I urge you all to please
share the message with your near and dear
ones to spread the existence of these rights.

Whosoever his/her human rights is compromised is relatively powerless. This ought to change if we want Peace and Fair Justice to reign in our environment.

Yours Sincerely
Omole Ayobami Joseph
a.k.a O.A.J