Human Rights First, rights refer to the moral or legal entitlement over something. Human rights are rights inherent in all human beings by virtue of being human. Everybody is entitled to enjoy them regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or status. Human rights can also be explained as privilege to be enjoyed by human beings. Such rights include right to life, freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom from slavery, freedom of religion, right to education, right to personal liberty, freedom from torture, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination. Furthermore, Heywood (2007:326), seem to have summarized what human rights entail when he rightly observed thus: "Human rights are rights to which people are entitled by virtue of being human; they are a modern and secular version of natural rights. Human rights are ‘universal’ in the sense that they belong to all humans rather than to members of any particular ...
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