H.R. The Importance of Social Networks.

Nowadays persons do not care about human rights protection at all, because we are so interested in our private life, in our own and personal issues, so we forget about others and we don’t care about what’s happening in the world, we forget about society and we focus on the things that can bring us certain benefits, or things that can help us in one way or another. But of course we have time to do what we like and what we want, that’s why we have time to use social networks, and this does not mean that social networks are the best thing of the world, but like we want to chat with our friends, and we want stalk everyone’s life because we do not have anything else that calls our attention. So, is more than evident that most of the persons spend their time using social networks.

That’s why social networks are a great tool to use for any purpose in our actual society, and of course Human Rights are not an exception. A good example of this is the experience that Wael Ghonim had, and did human right was involved with the social media. Wael Ghonim is an Egyptian citizen who happens to be employed by Google. Wael used different platforms including Facebook and Twitter to send messages promoting change and defense of human rights in Egypt around the world for all of us to see. So thanks to his experience we can say that social networks are an amazing tool that can help us to express our opinion an unconformities, because he said the following: If there was no social networks, it would have never been sparked because the whole thing before the revolution was the most critical thing. Without Facebook, without Twitter, without Google, without YouTube, this would have never happened.  

Sources:

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/InternetFreedom.aspx

http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/rm/2011/162490.htm

http://www.ifla.org/faife/links/intellectual-freedom-human-rights-organisations

https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1863637

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/pccs/documents/rc_pc_pccs_doc_22021992_aetatis_en.html

Human Rights Types.

We could classify the human tights that all the human beings have on 3 basic concepts: Civil Political Human Rights, Socio-economic human rights and Collective-developmental human rights.

The Civil-political human rights are divided in two subtypes: norms pertaining to physical and civil security (for example, no torture, slavery, inhumane treatment, arbitrary arrest; equality before the law) and norms pertaining to civil-political liberties or empowerments (for example, freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; freedom of assembly and voluntary association; political participation in one’s society).

Another important aspect are the Socio-economic human rights similarly include two subtypes: norms pertaining to the provision of goods meeting social needs (for example, nutrition, shelter, health care, education) and norms pertaining to the provision of goods meeting economic needs (for example, work and fair wages, an adequate living standard, a social security net).

And finally, we could mention, collective-developmental human rights also include two subtypes: the self-determination of peoples (for example, to their political status and their economic, social, and cultural development) and certain special rights of ethnic and religious minorities (for example, to the enjoyment of their own cultures, languages, and religions).

Bibliography: http://www.globalization101.org/three-generations-of-rights/

Terminology. 

We could give many definitions and opinions about human rights, but on an easy way, we could say that human rights manage interesting and important topics ranging from the right to life to the right to a cultural identity, and it involves all elementary preconditions to have dignified life.      

We can organize these rights in several groups, according to the characteristics of each one of them and according to the importance that they have on an international level, because the topics the they are related with them and the impact that they cause on people.

1. Classic and Social Rights: We know that something classic is something that is often used, something common, and we also know that something that is social is something that is related with society. So, we could say that the classic rights are those that don’t require the intervention of the state, and social rights are those that need the intervention of the state for its regulation.
2. Civil, Political, Economic, Social and cultural rights: The civil rights are those ones that concern to normal life, to our daily bases. The political rights are those that mark our freedom according to some regulations. The economic and social rights are those that provide tae conditions necessary to have prosperity and well being.
3.  Cultural Rights: They are all those rights that help us to reach success and let us participate freely in the cultural life of the community, like music, dances, paints, sculptures, etc.
4. Fundamental and Basic Rights: They are one of the most important rights of the world and we must respect them everywhere and on every single person.
5. Freedom and Civil Liberties: We could say that freedoms are all those preconditions that dignify the existence of the human beings.
6. Individual and collective rights: This is the freedom that every single person has to assembly and associate wherever and whenever they want, like forming a union or a trade.  
7.  First, second and third generation rights: They are the 3 generations proposed by Karel Vasak, and the first one is related tp the liberty according to our civil and political rights. The second one is related to equality and cultural rights, and the third one and last one is related to all the solidarity rights. 
8.  Bibliography: http://www.humanrights.is/the-human-rights-project/humanrightscasesandmaterials/humanrightsconceptsideasandfora/theconceptsofhumanrightsanintroduction/definitionsandclassifications