According to the United Nations
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), “Human rights are
rights to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex,
national or ethnic color, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally
entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all
interrelated, interdependent and indivisible.”
The above is what we discussed during
the last session. I personally believe that our country has improved a lot with
regards to this issue but we still got a big room for improvement. For example
in big cities like Makati and Manila you will not probably notice human rights
abuses that much but when you go the far flung areas like in Mindanao, you will
see be shock to see and be in disgust with the situation there.
At the moment, as a student and a
citizen what I can do to help with regards to the issue is very limited. However,
I am very willing to do whatever I can. Based on studies and history, we as a
nation has a history of being discriminative to people even to those that are our
own. This is especially the case for those that are in ethnic tribes, the less
fortunate, and the uneducated. We tend to judge people base on where they came
from, what the color of their skin is and what’s their status in the society.
As I’ve stated above, I believe we have improved a lot but we still can and
should improve with regards to this issue. What we can do as a private
individual is utilize what we have studied in school and was taught to us in church.
Though we have the natural tendency to discriminate, we can always stop for a moment
to think and rationalize things base on our knowledge before we act or speak.
If we do this we can make our environment better in our own little ways and if everyone
does this then perhaps we can have a bigger impact to our nation and maybe to
the world also.
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