Human rights
Human rights are right
inherent to all human being regardless of race ,sex, nationality ,ethnicity,
language ,religion or any other status, human rights include the right to life
and liberty , freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and
expression, the right to work and education
and many more. Human rights protection is the action by which different states
and non-government organization form a basis of public policy word wide to defend
human rights. Human rights protection can be explained in various levels
,international level ,national level, regional level and domestic level. By
starting with the international level of
human rights are protected in different ways such as;
Set of high commission for human
rights, the office of the UN high commissioner for human right has led
responsibility in the UN system for the promotion and protection of human
rights . The office supports the human rights components of people keeping
mission in several countries and has many country and regional offices.
Human rights council, the human
right council established in 2006 replaced the 60-years old UN commission on
human right as the key independent UN intergovernmental body responsible for
human rights.
Human right treaty bodies, the
human right treaty bodies are committees of independence expert that monitor
implementation of the core international human right treaties.
Special procedure, the special
procedures of human rights council are prominent independent experts working on
the voluntary basis who examine monitor public report and advise on human rights
from a thematic or country specific perspective.
The
UN development group human rights, mainstreaming, mechanism (UNDG-HRM) advances
human right mainstreaming effort with the UN development system
Special adviser on the prevention of genocide
and the responsibility to protect. This acts as a catalyst to raise awareness of the causes and
dynamics of genocide to alert relevant
actors where there is not genocide and to advocate and mobilize for appropriate
action the special adviser on the responsibility to protect leads the
conceptual political institutional and operation development of the
responsibility to protect.
UN have also legal instruments which
help to protect human right,the international bill of right like the universal
declaration of human rights(1948)was the first legal document protecting
universal human right together with international covenant on civil and
political right and democracy in which different states are emphasized to
maintain democratic principle in their country .
When the united nation UN was established
in 1945 it is charter contained the first explicit recognition in
international law that an individual was
entitled to fundamental right and freedoms. Article 56 provide that all members
pledge themselves to take joint several action in cooperation with the
organization for the achievement of the purposes so forth in article 55.Article
13(1)is promote human right , Article 62(2)(3) provides for functional power to
respect of human right .
National level human right are protected
through democratic principle, Different countries maintain human right by
applying democratic principle like freedom of press free and fair election,
separation of state organs, accountability and rule of law for example ,
Tanzania is the one of the country which is under democratic government
therefore both mentioned above are maintained in which people are able to
participate in election and other issues in a state.
Constitution , the constitution also play a
great role in the protecting and maintaining human rights in many countries of
the word because within the constitution there are special parties which
recognize human right for example the constitution of united republic of
Tanzania recognize human right in CHAPTER SIX THE COMMISION FOR HUMAN RIGHT AND GOOD GOVERNANCE
AND PUBLIC LEADER ETHICS (SECRETARIAT)
Trust commission , when there is a
misunderstanding in the country especially on political and religion matters, so as to reach
resolution and maintain human rights commission can be set for example in
Tanzania we have Walioba commission
which engaged to finding opinion of the
people concerning constitution
Regional level human rights are
protected through security force, in regional level different force is
established like police station which ensures that all people and their
properties are peace. Regional, district and magistrate court are responsible
protection of human right since it involve in solving different conflict among the
people and providing punishment for those who fail to maintain human rights.
Domestic level, human rights can be
protected through embrace the duty of protecting human right. All citizens in their
villages and street should be responsible to protect human rights among
themselves and to report those who are against with the human rights. Learning
about human rights, every citizen in country should be able to learn about
human rights so as to know how human rights are protected and the advantage of
protecting human right.
In short there are different ways
which can be used to protect human rights apart from what we mentioned above
but something to note the effort should be increased by united nations and
other nations to protect human rights because there are observation of
different violation of human right in the different parties of the world for
example Cong DRC,Suddan ,Saud Arabia ,Burundi and Siria.
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