“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” Here are a few facts that might surprise you… - In 2011, the United Nations declared internet access a basic human right. - Everyone has a right to leisure and holiday, with pay. - In the UK in 2002, a man attempted to refute a £25 motoring ticket by invoking the right to trial by combat, challenging the Driving Vehicle and Licensing Agency to elect a champion to do combat with him. - In 1994, a man in the UK won the right to a retrial for murder because it was found that the members of the jury used a Ouija board to contact the victims, before returning the verdicts. - Claudette Colvin was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation, 9 months before Rosa Parks, but was not used as a figurehead for the civil rights movement because she was an unmarried, pregnant teenager. - Scientists have proposed that we give Dolphins similar rights as Humans, given their brain structure and complex social systems. One ethics professor has even called them “non-human persons.” #humanrights #empowered #equality #jucra