Us humans are really strange beings. We talk about human rights, tweet, post, and argue about human rights, make demands about our human rights, and some Einsteins don't even know what is a human right. But in reality we completely overlook how many rights we violate everyday, ourselves!
Now most of you would disagree, deny or even get offended with the above statement, but as bitter as it is to read, sadly its true.
And before you being to start a mental self-evaluation, here's a checklist to help you in it. If you do, ignore or encourage any of it, you're a human rights violator:
✘ If you, your household or workplace employ a under-aged servant (Child Labor), You're a human rights violator.
✘ If you're a Parent, and making your son or daughter marry at an early age (before 24 years of age) against their own free will, You're Violating your child's rights! (An Indian Prone Violation)
✘ If you have more than one wife or husband (Known as Polygamy), You're a Violator. (A violation common to Muslims)
✘ If you demand (or even support) for Dowry for marriage, You're a mean ole human rights violator.
✘ Failure to prevent employers from discriminating in recruitment or in general endeavors at workplace. (based on sex, disability, race, political opinion, social origin, HIV status, etc.) (The right to work). Violation, Violation, Violation!
The above lists only normal violations, that occur in our day to day lives. There are soo many others like rape, slavery, genocide, war crimes etc that I didn't include as they aren't a common violation.
You don't need to do anything else, so long you ensure you don't commit, support or ignore any of the above mentioned violation.
For this occasion I'm sharing "And Still I Rise", a Poem by Maya Angelou. Its one of my favorites, and suits this post and topic well.
I hope you'd like it too:
