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By Mireille Msan

Governments are obliged to provide education for all. They must respect, protect, and facilitate the realization of human rights, control child labor and provide a better life for poor people. How can this be done?
 

                Every creature on earth has the right to live a good life. What about human rights? There are many but the most important are education, health care, and life in dignity.

                Each person has the right to be educated. Governments are obliged to provide many rights for all but some of these rights can be provided directly and others indirectly .For example, governments must respect, protect, and facilitate the realization of our rights in education and to fulfill them directly under certain circumstances. On the other hand, human rights to food and nutrition, don’t oblige governments to feed all of us, however, they have to assure suitable institutional arrangements so that people can provide food for themselves. Moreover, governments must encourage education and control child labor who works in conditions that are extremely exploitative. These children have also the right to be educated as well as any other child given a good life.  Here, we have to notice the difference between acceptable children, work and unacceptable child labor. Many children work to have perhaps some pocket money but child labor must be ended because every child has the right to be educated and to live his childhood in a normal way. Furthermore, education has many results in society because persons who are educated have the biggest effect to increase the value of the firm or company in which they work and we don’t have to forget their importance in helping the progress of their society. For these reasons, government expenditures on education, yield benefits on many dimensions of development.

                In the same way, poor people have the right to live in dignity because we are all the same. If we want to search for the cause of poverty, we will find that there are many causes but the most important cause is deprivation, and this deprivation, reaches to many bad results as illiteracy and lack of health care derived from poverty.

                Poor people can’t afford to have good education because they don’t have money. Moreover, political, Economic and social deprivation affect poverty but not always. For example, in China, although the high growth development product, there are many people suffering from illiteracy. Despite of this, there is no famine in democratic countries. As we can see, social deprivation has the biggest effect on people, and to avoid had results, governments must improve the status of the poorest.

    Although the poverty of many people, we cannot deny their rights to have a good life and to live in dignity because, at the end, we are all the same in front of God and there is no difference between rich or poor.

              There are many solutions to present illiteracy and poverty. Who can assure them? Governments must have the biggest role to present bad results. They have to provide many free schools for people who can’t afford to pay money because no one should be illiterate especially nowadays, and governments don’t have also to forget the biggest effect of educated people in society.

              Furthermore, poverty must be ended because there are many bad results derived from it especially lack of food and nutrition which causes a lack of health care. For these reasons, health care and food must be paid for in some way by governments.

             Education, health care, life in dignity and similarity between people, must be provided to every person but human rights are for more important than that. Human rights are a very large theme to talk about.
            In my point of view, I find it difficult that governments around the word, especially in Lebanon will be able to assure all human rights. Can these rights one day be all provided to each human being?
 

                                                                                         Kent George

                                                                                   University of Hawaii

                                                                                     December 9,1998

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                                                                            SEN Amartya, time, May 29,2000