Human rights issues are taking on new focus in the new millennium. Economic and socialrights are a paramount concern as the link between adequate and inadequate livingstandards. Governmental and non-governmental organizations are realizing that somecountries take precedent over other countries when it comes to human rights. In the newmillennium, cases that violate human rights are being taken more serious than everbefore. International prosecution against individuals and corporations will take place ifhuman rights charges are brought against them. Human rights have been an issue in theinternational community since the beginning of time. Many bills and declarations havebeen written to distinguish what rights humans have by nature and what constitutes ahuman rights violation. The Bill of Rights in America, English Magna Carta of England,and the French Declaration of Man of France all set forth what human rights each citizenhas in their respective country (Slomanson, page 494). Human rights have and willcontinue to be a serious issue and concern of the international community.
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English: Stamp of Moldova: 50th anniversary of the...Poverty,rights of women and children, and corporate and military involvement are only some of theissues that human rights involves.
Everyone has that right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well being ofhimself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care andnecessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment,sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstancesbeyond his control (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UN General Assembly Resolution217A (III) of 10 December 1948. Article 25. The article above states that an adequatestandard of living is a basic human right. Yet, according to the United NationsDevelopment Program's (UNDP) 1998 Human Development Report showed that nearlythree-fifths of the 4.4 billion people living in the developing world lack basicsanitation, one third have no access to clean water and one...