As is well-known, all people are naturally endowed with different physical characteristics, and other mental abilities. People differ by gender, age, race, religion, etc.. But what is their common equality? One thing which people are equal to each other in – they have the same opportunities to use their own rights. All persons are equal before the law. It means that the law applies equally to all citizens of all nations all over the world.
Article 7 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims: “All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law” (United Nations, 1948). The above mentioned document, adopted on behalf of the whole mankind, re-affirms the principle of democracy and freedom according to which all citizens are equal before the law regardless of race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, place of residence, social status, religious or political beliefs. It re-affirms the principle that was steadily worked out by human beings for the purpose of securing the society we live in from tyranny, oppression and havoc.
But, at the same moment, we see nowadays that this principle is widely violated among world nations starting from inequality before the law of members of tribes in jungles of Latin America, Oceania and finishing with genocides of whole peoples by despots and tyrants whose names are inscribed in the world history. We live in ages of civilized community when the law of the strongest and such notions as blood revenge, bloodshed of ruling class have no reason to be dominant, shall remain in the past of long gone primitive society. Such state of things when persons cannot fully exercise the rights and freedoms granted to them by law (freely to choose a profession, to seek and receive medical care, to defend their rights in any way and other examples) and when persons responsible for law violation do not face just prosecution and are released from prisons – such state of things is called unlawfulness during which no equality before the law may be observed.
This issue, that tarnishes democratic society, that threatens the prosperous world we would like to live in, can be solved only by unification of efforts of all people in struggle against this taint of modern society. By educating and bringing up succeeding generations in the way the rights and freedoms of everyone are observed, the defeat of this human wickedness is possible. I`m assured that with a help of everyone, including my share of assistance, the human race may end up with a phenomenon of people`s inequality before the law.
References
United Nations (1948). Universal declaration of human rights. Retrieved from
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
