About human rights

Human rights (basic human rights or natural rights) refer to the rights that people should enjoy because they are human beings. Its main meaning is that everyone should be treated in accordance with human rights. The universality and morality of human rights are its two basic characteristics.

In today's international society, safeguarding and safeguarding human rights is a basic moral principle. Whether it meets the requirements of protecting human rights has become an important criterion (whether politically or economically) to judge a collective. However, at the practical level, there are considerable disputes about the specific definition of human rights and the specific ways to protect human rights, and even serious conflicts have emerged.

Natural law is a justice system that exists independently of political positive law. In its historical process, its interpretation and use are very different. Generally speaking, the meaning of natural law includes moral theory and legal theory, although their essence is logically unrelated. According to the ethical theory of natural law, in a sense, the moral norms that regulate human behavior originate from human natural nature or the universal truth of harmony.

According to the legal theory of natural law, the authority of legal norms comes at least in part from the consideration of the moral advantages of those norms. Cicero once said: In fact, there is a real law-that is, correct reason-which is suitable for nature, applicable to all people and eternal.

It is unfair for human beings to use legislation to offset it. At any time, it is not allowed to limit its role, let alone eliminate it ... it will not make a rule in Rome, but another rule in Athens, and it will not make a rule today and tomorrow. Some will become eternal laws that any nation must abide by at all times.

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From the classification of human rights, it can be divided into domestic human rights and international human rights, as well as individual human rights and collective human rights. Because different viewpoints focus on different points, different conclusions are drawn.

If the essence of human rights is revealed by basic human rights, its rationality lies in that different kinds of human rights contain the concept of basic human rights, which cover the universal rights enjoyed by everyone (including groups), including individual rights (such as life and health rights, personal rights, personality rights, property rights, equality rights and basic freedoms of each individual).

There are also collective rights (such as the domestic collective human rights of special groups such as the old, weak, sick and disabled children and women, and the international collective human rights such as national self-determination, development, environmental rights, humanitarian assistance and peace), as well as basic human rights with both individual rights and collective rights (such as the right to survival, security, minority rights and development).

Judging from the development history and present situation of human rights, human rights originally existed in domestic laws. With the concern for basic human rights, human rights have gradually entered the field of international law, and the two have been interacting constantly. Therefore, basic human rights can best embody the basic rights and freedoms that various rights subjects should enjoy in international human rights law and domestic law, thus revealing the essence of human rights.