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This 3 page paper examines the importance of human rights. Furthermore, this paper examines economic and social rights specifically. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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allowed people to secure those rights that were most essential to their well-being. The most evident origins of this battle began with the 1776 fight of the British colonies
claiming their independence, and the ensuing writing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (A Short History of the Human Rights Movement, 1997). What began there has since evolved into
a more defined effort to secure what have been deemed as basic and essential rights (A Short History of the Human Rights Movement, 1997). Philosophers through the ages have
battled with the definition of these rights, as have notable leaders such as Martin Luther King, Gandhi, and the Dali Lama (A Short History of the Human Rights Movement, 1997).
Fighting for these rights has been important because of the abuses people have had to endure through the ages (A Short
History of the Human Rights Movement, 1997). Slavery, torture, poverty, disease: all of these and more have often been the result of purposeful persecution. Determining that such
persecution is intolerable has been the goal of the human rights movement in general, although there is no static, agreeable definition of what human rights encompasses. Therefore, the fight
of human rights activists has often been fraught with not only trying to secure these rights, but trying to define and persuade the public that particular rights are both important
and inherently just. Economic rights are among the basic human rights to which all individuals are entitled (McCann, Ratz, Yanchuch, and
Zayyad, 1998). However, here again problems arise in regards to defining to what exactly an individual is entitled (McCann, Ratz, Yanchuch, and Zayyad, 1998). It was President Roosevelt
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