15 OCT 2012
East Jerusalem children walk through the ancient streets to school before the shops open.
Without an Education economically and socially marginalised adults and children cannot lift themselves out of poverty and participate fully as citizens.
The right to an education is a universal and also applies to adults who missed a basic education during their childhood.
Although all children in the world have the right to an education many especially young girls miss out.
16 OCT 2012
A Holy Koran seller waits for business in East Jerusalem.
Copyright exists until the Author is dead for 70 years the original Holy Koran is out of copyright, new translations can still be copyrighted.
This human right, is also the right to protection from plagiarism.
“…rare circumstances can arise where the right of freedom of expression will come into conflict with the protection afforded by the Copyright Act…”Ashdown v. Telegraph Group Ltd 2003
A person who uses pirate software, music or movies, breaches the copyright laws and is also abusing the author’s human, natural rights, to a fair compensation for their work.
17 OCT 2012
A family gathering in Har ha Zion, Old Jerusalem.
Grandchildren put on fancy dress for a surprise party to celebrate granny’s birthday.
The oldest of the grandchildren has a half day off from army duty for this celebration, he has to carry his weapon until it can be safely stored.
The right to a private family life includes the right to personal dignity and the autonomy to control interactions a person has with others, both in private and in public.
18 OCT 2012
At a grave in Har HaMenuchot, Jerusalem’s largest cemetery.
Stones are traditionally left on Jewish graves as a permanent record of a visit.
Some human rights end at the time of death, the right to marry or vote for example and speaking ill of the dead has no legal consequence.
We are able to examine the archaeological remains of the dead, for research, with few limitations.
To give the dead human rights means that human rights can exist without interests or duties.
19 OCT 2012
In the room of the last supper in Jerusalem letters are left to communicate with god.
Here these letters have been opened and read by someone and then left opened on the windowsill.
The right to privacy includes information privacy (credit information and medical records), bodily privacy (the protection of people’s physical selves against invasive procedures such as drug testing and cavity searches), privacy of communications, (mail, telephones, email and other forms of communication) and territorial privacy, (intrusion into the domestic and other environments).
I can find no evidence to suggest there is any legal privacy protection for written communication with god.
The person or persons, who opened and read these letters despite this being an invasion of privacy, may have only been committing something morally wrong and have committed no crime.
20 OCT 2012
The Police detention center in Jerusalem where arrested suspects are held before a court appearance.
Teenagers and adults, men and women, Jews and Arabs who were arrested on suspicion of any type of criminal activity are all held in separate areas.
While being detained in jail to find out eventually in a court if people are truly guilty we should treat them differently than we do convicted criminals.
The right to be treated as ‘innocent until proven guilty.
21 OCT 2012
A child in the town of Lod in Israel works on a vegetable stall in the local market.
Child labor is in breach of many human rights “equal pay for equal work” and “Everyone has the right to an education” as two examples.
Not all work is considered child labor exceptions including the work of child artists and educational work programs.
The accepted minimum age for admission to employment or work is 15 years (13 for light work).
It is estimated that 215 million children are trapped in child labor.
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