human rights

Have you ever heard about human rights? What are they?  How many are there?

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in December 1948 and declares that every human being owns a list of thirty rights just for belonging to the human race. These rights are inherent to every individual and were created after the WW II so that such moral catastrophe would never happen again.

The list includes the right to education. Although I already knew this, I want to talk about it because in our society we often take education for guaranteed and forget that we are extraordinarily privileged to have quality public education. The following video reminds us that not everyone has access to education, and that, unfortunately, thousands of children in the world aren't attending classes but working in factories while you're reading this...