Long ago how individuals were treated within a state was the responsibility of the state and did not matter to any other state. Nowadays, what happens in different states is heard all over the world and watched very carefully. This is because discrimination and negative actions against a specific group of people or individuals by state authorities are highly despised by the international community. Although human rights are an important issue, many different organizations and religions have developed their own ideas/concepts on what human rights are and mean. For example, an idea of human rights can be seen through John Locke and liberal political theorists; this idea suggests that individuals in the international system are equal and that their natural rights take priority over international and national law. These natural rights consist of political and civil rights such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion and the fact that everyone deserves protection. These rights from the liberal perspective are known as first generation rights. There are two other basic types of human rights and they include second and third generation human rights. Second generation human rights can also be known as socioeconomic human rights. The concept of second generation human rights is a product of radicalism and socialism. According to the radicals, the state should guarantee social and economic rights to individuals
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