The main sources of the contemporary conception of human rights are the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations, 1948) and the many human rights documents and treaties that followed in international organizations such as the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Organization of American States, and …

Human Rights have continued to evolve and, since its foundation, the United Nations has adopted more than 20 principal treaties including conventions to prevent and prohibit specific abuses like torture and genocide and to protect particularly vulnerable populations, such as refugees (Convention Relating to the Status …

They include:

• Contaminating water, for example, with waste from State-owned facilities (the right to health)
• Evicting people by force from their homes (the right to adequate housing)
• Denying services and information about health (the right to health)

Traditionally it has been argued that there are fundamental differences between economic, social and cultural rights, and civil and political rights. These two categories of rights have been seen as two different concepts and their differences have been characterised as a dichotomy.

The UDHR and other documents lay out five kinds of human rights: economic, social, cultural, civil, and political. Economic, social, and cultural rights include the right to work, the right to food and water, the right to housing, and the right to education.

The United Nations has defined a broad range of internationally accepted rights, including civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights.

• RIGHTS: 4 KINDS. There are four basic kinds of right or liberty: biological, economic, cultural, and political. Each such right is the freedom to participate in (or have access.
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Some examples of human rights include:

• The right to life.
• The right to liberty and freedom.
• The right to the pursuit of happiness.
• The right to live your life free of discrimination.
• The right to control what happens to your own body and to make medical decisions for yourself.

Appendix 5: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated)

We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible. The principles are: Universal and inalienable, Interdependent and indivisible, Equal and non-discriminatory, and Both Rights and Obligations.