All these nations came up with and agreed on 30. They are:
- 1. We Are All Born Free & Equal
- 2. Don’t Discriminate
- 3. The Right to Life
- 4. No Slavery
- 5. No Torture
- 6. You Have Rights No Matter Where You Go
- 7. We’re All Equal Before the Law
- 8. Your Human Rights Are Protected by Law
- 9. No Unfair Detainment
- 10. The Right to Trial
- 11. We’re Always Innocent Till Proven Guilty
- 13. Freedom to Move
- 14. The Right to Seek a Safe Place to Live
- 15. Right to a Nationality
- 16. Marriage and Family
- 17. The Right to Your Own Things
- 18. Freedom of Thought
- 19. Freedom of Expression
- 20. The Right to Public Assembly
- 21. The Right to Democracy
- 22. Social Security
- 23. Workers’ Rights
- 24. The Right to Play
- 25. Food and Shelter for All
- 26. The Right to Education
- 27. Copyright
- 28. A Fair and Free World
- 29. Responsibility
- 30. No One Can Take Away Your Human Rights
And seriously, to me, it seems that there is one big, glaring omission here. It's not a surprise, especially given our country's corporate push to keep us from having health care as a right and, of course, universal health care but that's the one--I think the right to good, basic health care should be the 31st "basic human right" for everyone in the world.
Education is on the list but not health care?
It seems rather silly to me that they added "The Right to Play" but not "The Right to Basic Health Care". Screw playing, if I'm dying because of appendicitis, for example, even though I may be impoverished, I need health care, dammit! :) But seriously.
And "Copyright"? Good God, screw copyright being before health care. If I'm sick or dying, I'm not creating new things to help mankind that are going to benefit me financially. It's too late at that point.
And you know what? The rest of the world agrees with me. Virtually the entire world recognizes the need for all people to have health care somehow and they have worked out systems for their people to get it.
Just not my own country.
You know, the one that was, formerly, recently, the wealthiest in the world?
Think happy thoughts, folks!
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