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said: How are you guys so sure that freeing people is the right thing? Not that I do not agree, but I was wondering how we "know" what is right and wrong or who has more right to live, if we don't even know who or what put us here and with what reason. a document that acts like a global road map for freedom and equality
.” When we talk about defending human rights, we are referring to the collectively agreed-upon, universal, inalienable, and indivisible rights and freedoms outlined in these 30 articles as well as the rights that can be extrapolated from them even if they are not explicitly mentioned in the UDHR. Many of these are elaborated in the human rights treaties and standards that were forged in the aftermath of the UDHR’s adoption.
, which are people who have not used or advocated violence but are imprisoned because of who they are or what they believe . Article 5 and Article 9 of the UDHR state respectively that “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” and “no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
When we campaign for these prisoners to be freed, it is because their imprisonment violates these articles and therefore international human rights law. For example,, a young human-rights activist from Caracas, Venezuela, was detained for months, without trial and with limited access to sunlight, food, and water, simply for her work with marginalized youth.
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