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Human rights

Human rights are fundamental rights and freedoms which government and public authorities are legally obliged to respect. The rights guaranteed by international codes fall into three broad classes:

1. Individual Civil and Political Liberties including: freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention without trial, and torture or other maltreatment; freedom of movement, association, and expression; and religious, conscientious, and philosophical liberty.
2. Social and Economic Rights and Freedoms such as: rights to education, health care, work, fair conditions of employment; and maintenance of at least a minimum standard of living.
3. The 'third-generation' Collective Rights (the rights of peoples), designed to advance the position of minorities and bolster self-determination and equality, as well as to control the capacity of richer nations to use their resources to exploit poorer ones.

You can get more information from:

West Sussex Carers Network

www.yourrights.org.uk - online guide to the Human rights Act 1998, from Liberty, the human rights organisation

www.direct.gov.uk - government website with information about the Human Rights Act

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