What are Human Rights?

Human Rights

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other rank. We are all uniformly entitled to our human rights with no discrimination. These rights are all interconnected, interdependent and inseparable.

Universal human rights are often expressed and guaranteed by law, in the forms of treaties, customary international law, common principles and other sources of international law. International human rights law lays down obligations of governments to act in certain ways or to refrain from certain acts, in order to encourage and protect human rights and basic freedoms of individuals or groups.