Human Rights Dbq

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The United Nations (UN) came into being in the year 1945, shortly after World War II came to an end. The UN’s purpose was to bring peace to all nations of the world. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, President FDR’s wife and also the head of a committee of persons, wrote a special document in 1948. That document “declared” the rights that everyone in the entire world should have—the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration was formally adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, in Paris, France. It is the most universal human rights document in existence, outlining the thirty fundamental rights that form the basis for a democratic society. This document created back in the day now includes about 200 nations.…show more content…
Many people, along with Ed Snowden himself, believed what he could do was clearly a violation of the law; it defiled the fourth and fifth Amendments to the Constitution of his country, Article twelve of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and numerous statutes and treaties which forbid such systems of massive, pervasive surveillance. Once word got out though, everything was out of order, and people were furious. Hence, it actually did more harm than…show more content…
All nations involved should feel so strongly about it too. They have to respect this piece of document, because it guarantees all humans the right to a nationality, where they can all belong to a country. It also assures them the right to seek a safe place to live, and to privacy. It basically notes that nobody should try to harm a person’s good name. Nobody has the right to come into their homes, open their letters, or bother them or their family members without a good reason. Most importantly, this document provides mankind with the freedom to move. Everyone must have the right to go where they want in their own countries, and get to travel as they
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