Ethics

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 5.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks

Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 26.
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

A few articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as written in 1948.
Amiable, yet sadly unacheivable in my opinion unless our World achieved a practically impossible Utopian scenario. With the current decadent state our world is in, perhaps human rights may soon no longer be a liberty for those who live in tumultuous regions such as the middle east. Even though Singapore has some limitations on article 17, you cannot deny the fact that it does its' best honour every human's right.
A certain superpower abuses these basic human rights through harsh laws meant to protect its security. It may be true that thier adversaries may be devoid of moral and ethical principles and thus have little or no regard on Human Rights. By compromising their values to hype up security, it may prove to be a better defense against these oppressors of Human Rights, yet this move could be what these oppressors want; the champions of freedom compromising the freedom of their citizens and generally Mankind. The Hadhita massacre, the Congo Conflict, The North Korean nuclear threat, the impending Iraqi civil war. Some call this the signs of armageddon, others, a recurring state of conflict common to man. The only thing certain though, is that in all conflicts and unjustifiable acts, that the only undeniable human right to live has been compromised.