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  • Essay / Social Rights: Fundamental Rights Ignored - 1345

    Safe, affordable housing and a secure income are things that many people around the world have, but at the same time, many more do not have this luxury. Many families take this for granted, while many suffer every day from poor housing and the lack of a secure income. Social rights such as affordable housing, guaranteed income, education, etc. should be considered human rights, and everyone in the world should be able to access them and, in return, enjoy a basic standard of living. If everyone had access to these fundamental rights, the world would be a much better place. There would no longer be anyone on the streets and no one would have to starve their families for lack of money. Some people believe that these social rights should only be granted to you if you can earn the money necessary to obtain them. Some people have certain circumstances that do not allow them to find a job, especially with the economy there is a decrease in available jobs. This is why education, up to post-secondary level, should also be free. We need a fundamental vision of social and human rights as a single vision. Without this fundamental perspective, “when a person is tortured or when a person's right to free expression is restricted, observers almost unconsciously hold the state responsible. However, when people die of hunger or thirst...people in rural areas are forced from their homes, the world still tends to blame anonymous economic or "development" forces...before blaming responsibility on the threshold of the State” (Leckie, 1998). , p.82). People who believe that you should deserve these rights think that the world's poor are responsible for them themselves and should not receive any help. These poor people are the ones we should help, without letting them down, living on the street and in the middle of a paper...... ate a better country for all, both the rich and the poor. This could make Canada a whole new country and show other countries around the world that we are committed to helping people who need help, not to stereotyping people and denying some of them their basic needs. ReferencesCardenas, S. (2005). Restrictive rights? Human rights education and the state. International Review of Political Science, 26 (4), 363-379. Clapham, A. (2007). Human rights: a very brief introduction. New York: Oxford University Press. Leckie, S. (1998). Another step towards indivisibility: identifying the main characteristics of violations of economic, social and cultural rights. Human Rights Quarterly, 20 (2), 81-124. Whelan, D.J. and Donnelly, J. (2007). The West, economic and social rights and the global human rights regime: setting the record straight. Quarterly Human Rights Report, 29 (4), 908-949.