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0:001948 rings a bell hm oh yes of course it
0:04was in the last century Grandma and
0:06Grandpa's generation Legend has it that
0:08there were still dinosaurs hiding in
0:10caves up in the mountains but that is
0:13something we're really not sure of at
0:15all back then everyone was recovering
0:17from the second world war and its 70
0:19million dead the most devastating
0:21conflict in human
0:23history so in 1948 to make sure such
0:26atrocities would not happen again the
0:28search for shared values began why have
0:31people unite around a strong symbol the
0:33universal Declaration of Human Rights
0:36what is less known is that it was
0:37adopted by the UN General Assembly and
0:39has become the most translated text on
0:41Earth but what are human rights the
0:43rights you are entitled to simply
0:45because you are a human being in other
0:47words everyone benefits from them from
0:49birth without exception or distinction
0:52the idea behind it is that these rights
0:55are like needs they are absolutely
0:57necessary to live well without them it
0:59would be the law of the Jungle and you'd
1:01risk being beheaded if your government
1:03didn't like your Facebook
1:05status in the Declaration 30 articles
1:08there are the civil and political
1:09Liberties such as the right to life the
1:11right to vote freedom of expression or
1:13the prohibition of slavery and
1:15torture rights are interdependent
1:18indivisible and
1:19interrelated this means that if a right
1:21is not respected a series of other
1:23rights won't be either if you are
1:25homeless you live in the streets so you
1:28can't sleep you get sick you don't go to
1:30school and won't find a job violation of
1:33the right to adequate housing triggers
1:34the violation of the right to rest the
1:36right to education the right to work etc
1:39these are economic social and cultural
1:42rights okay so a great text was agreed
1:44upon but who does what well on paper the
1:48state's mission is to take the necessary
1:50measures for the Declaration to be
1:51respected but in
1:53reality there are some very bad students
1:56the Declaration is not a legislative
1:58text it's an ideal its name says it all
2:00it is a declaration therefore it is not
2:03valid in a court of law but Most states
2:05have integrated human rights in their
2:06constitution and therefore they must
2:08guarantee them you can defend human
2:11rights only if you know them everybody's
2:13role is to ensure they are
2:16respected Collective conscience means
2:18that each and every person is
2:19responsible for everybody else's
2:21well-being therefore we can all get
2:23involved protest against injustices and
2:26make the universal rights ideal succeed