{"id":1997,"date":"2013-11-16T11:34:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T06:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2015-03-13T00:30:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T19:00:58","slug":"recognition-as-a-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"The Right To Recognition As A Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>Amrit Pal Singh \u2018Amrit\u2019<\/em>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Article 6<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.<\/strong><br \/>\n(The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The right to recognition as a person is very vital, despite the fact that it is usually uncared for.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to have the right to recognition as a person? It is the right to be recognised as a person or an individual, that is to say the right to be recognised as a human being before the law.<\/p>\n<p>For the law, a person is a person, a human being. Men and women, persons belonging to the majority and persons belonging to minorities, all are humans in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>A person has the right to recognition as a person, not as a man or woman. It means the law will be equal for men and women. The right to recognition as a person makes it in no doubt that any person is not denied his\/her right, because s\/he is a male or a female. No person shall be made victim of any gender biased law<\/p>\n<p>A person has the right to recognition as a person, not as a person belonging to racial\/religious\/ethnic majority group or a person belonging to racial\/religious\/ethnic minority group. It means any person shall not be denied his\/her right, because s\/he belongs to majority or minority group.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the right to recognition is enjoyed everywhere. If a person enjoys his\/her right at one place and is denied the same somewhere else, it is a gross infringement of fundamental human rights described in the <em>Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Amrit Pal Singh \u2018Amrit\u2019) Article 6 Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. (The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations) The right to recognition as a person is very vital, despite the fact that it is usually uncared for. What does it mean to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[67,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}