Human Rights: A personal opinion on the matter.
When we talking about Human Rights we must
understand that we mean a sensitive issue for many people around the world,
because there are still a lot of countries where respect for them is extremely
precarious.
That isn’t the case of Canada,
where there is a strong Culture and Tradition of respect and promotion of Human
Rights (HR) which are contained in The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
It’s difficult to select one of those HR as the most important, if any, because
all are closely related to the full and integral development of the person.
However, in my opinion if I were to make a
list of them ordered by relevance, I would place first in the list the number
seven (Legal Rights) “Everyone has the
right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be
deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamentals
justice…”. I believe that humans normally serve our needs starting from the
most basic (physiological), after personal needs (safety, self-esteem) and then
serve social needs. A person who has not secured fundamental aspects such as
their own life, liberty and security, it can hardly develop fully as a citizen
in a democratic society.
