Human Rights: Who is Responsible?

Throughout this week we have examined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, while specifically researching and highlighting recent examples where basic human rights have been violated. For this next post I want you to discuss the importance of human rights and who has the responsibility to act, uphold and ensure that these situations do not occur.


The following questions / prompts should be used to assist you in writing your next post:

• Why should there be such a concept as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
• Why do you think these rights are so important? (Provide a relevant example that explores a person, community, country that has (is) violating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
• Who do you think has the most responsibility in acknowledging and upholding human rights?
• What role does the UN play? What can the individual do?

The word limit for this post is approximately 350 - 400, but feel free to exceed this limit - there is a lot to discuss and make comment on.

This post is due to be posted up on your blog by Monday 28th Feb