Understanding Human Rights, Citizenship, and Socialization
Human Rights and Citizenship
Institutions like the UN remind everyone that people have rights. When someone is a citizen of a state, authorities undertake to protect their rights.
Right: The ability of people to claim something.
Duty: Everything that we must do because there are objective standards that require it of us, or because it is a requirement of consciousness itself.
Subjective Right: The right of every citizen as a person.
Objective Right: People only have rights that are recognized by the laws of each country.
Rights are universal and individual.
- Individual: As human beings and as citizens, we are unique and unrepeatable. We not only have this particular right or that right, but we have the right to be human and become citizens.
- Universal: Humanizing us allows us to exercise our citizenship alongside our fellow citizens.
Cittadinanza (past): Inhabitant of the Greek city-state or the free medieval city.
With modernity, especially the American and French revolutions, the conditions for being citizens were evolving.
Understanding Citizenship
Citizenship: The status of those who are full members of a community with civil rights to exercise personal freedom, with political rights to participate in public affairs, and socio-economic rights that allow you to enjoy social welfare and protection to live with dignity.
Civil Rights
Civil Rights / Civil (personal or individual freedoms): A set of citizens’ rights established by law and protected by the Constitution. They can be distinguished as those that refer to individual human beings as physical beings and those that refer to them as spiritual beings.
Constitution and Freedom
Constitution: Freedom of the citizen as a member of a community, thus regulating their integration into the immediate human environment (family) and the collectivity. Establishes rights and fundamental freedoms.
Dignity and Rights
Dignity: We are all deserving of recognition for being people. Rights are inherent to the person; they are not given to us by anyone.
Pàtria
Pàtria: Provides personal security, guarantees and protection of rights, and also extends the scope of rights that recognize a person, such as some political and social rights.
Socialization
Socialization: Once born, a process that incorporates the norms and values of our culture. Makes us a member of several social groups: family, friends, school, company, recreation groups, etc.
That which comes to human action is often not merely the action of an individual subject, but a collective action.
Political and Collective Rights
Political or Collective Rights: The rights and freedoms that guarantee the political participation of all citizens in the functioning of the collective life of the country.
Among the collective rights is the fundamental right of association.
Types of Partnerships
Most significant types of partnerships:
- Politics: A group of people who have a permanent structure and therefore some internal organization (governing bodies) and resources to maintain continuity and fulfill its purposes. Members of a political party share some ideological affinities and coincide in their views on how to work for the general interests of the country. The party hopes to gain power to implement the proposals outlined in the government program.
- Unions
Freedom of Association
Freedom of Association: Freedom to create unions and unions of international unions, freedom to join or not, according to the convenience of each individual.