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Expanding Scope of Rights

  1.  While Fundamental Rights are the source of all rights, our Constitution and law offer a wider range of rights. Over the years the scope of rights has expanded. From time to time, the courts gave judgments to expand the scope of rights.
  2. Now school education has become a right for Indian citizens. The governments are responsible for providing free and compulsory education to all children up to the age of 14 years.
  3.  Parliament has enacted a law giving the right to information to the citizens. We have a right to seek information from government offices.
  4.  Recently the Supreme Court has expanded the meaning of the right to life to include the right to food.
  5. The right to property and right to vote in elections are important constitutional rights.
  6. Constitution of South Africa guarantees its citizens several kinds of new rights:

    1. Right to privacy, so that citizens or their home cannot be searched, their phones cannot be tapped, their communication cannot be opened.
    2. Right to an environment that is not harmful to their health or well-being.
    3. Right to have access to adequate housing.
    4. Right to have access to health care services, sufficient food and water; no one may be refused emergency medical treatment.

    Human right activists all over the world seek a set of rights as a standard of human rights. These include:

    1. Right to work: the opportunity to everyone to earn a livelihood by working.
    2. Right to safe and healthy working conditions, fair wages that can provide a decent standard of living for the workers and their families
    3. Right to adequate standard of living including adequate food, clothing and housing.
    4. Right to social security and insurance.
    5. Right to health: medical care during illness, special care for women during childbirth and prevention of epidemics
    6. Right to education: free and compulsory primary education, equal access to higher education.
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