Importance of Social Networks as part of Human Rights communication and Defense.

Due to the new emerge of social media, there are easier and faster ways to cause a violation in the human rights of individuals. These has draw attention to some of the organizations which are in charge of protecting the human rights.

¨people can today get informed, train and engage with other people, raising awareness or triggering social movements much more easily and on a wider level than ever before.¨
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Social media come with potential problems, as well as gains. This new phenomenon presents us with a range of fresh challenges. One important issue is how to ensure that Internet regulations do not strangle freedom of expression.

“Blocking”, for example, is nowadays frequently used to prevent specific content from reaching a final user. However, the indications are that this method is not efficient in preventing, for example, human rights violations on the Internet. 

Social networks indeed host a vast and growing repository of personal data, all of it in digital form. It falls to our national and international authorities to ensure that our individual rights to privacy and data protection are not sacrificed to social networks, but rather reinforced to recognize and meet the range of new challenges these powerful new media present. Even if we think the information we provide to some sites is protected and safe, sometimes it´s not, and they explain it all in the terms and conditions that most of us don´t read.

 I think that to stop or at least, prevent the violations in the human rights of individuals that social media makes easier to do, the sites should provide some sort of rules, Restrictions and regulations so the violations that are committed in social media have a sort of sanction for the ones that commit them.

                                                                               

Bibliography

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Classification of Human Rights 

Human rights can be classified in a number of different ways. Some rights may fall into more than one of the available categories. One of the most widely used classifications distinguishes two general categories:

• classic or civil and political rights
• social rights that also include economic and cultural rights 

Classic rights generally restrict the powers of the government in respect of actions affecting the individual and his or her autonomy (civil rights) and confer an opportunity upon people to contribute to the determination of laws and participate in government (political rights). 

Social rights require the governments to act in a positive, interventionist manner so as to create the necessary conditions for human life and development. 

The governments are expected to take active steps toward promoting the well-being of all its members out of social solidarity. It is believed that everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization of the economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) indispensable for his or her dignity and the free development of his or her personality.

All human rights carry corresponding obligations that must be translated into concrete duties to guarantee these rights. For many years, traditional human rights discourse was dominated by the misperception that civil and political rights require only negative duties while economic, social and cultural rights require positive duties. In this view, the right to free speech is guaranteed when the state leaves people alone, whereas the state must take positive action to guarantee the right to health by building health clinics and providing immunization.