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Most legal systems today in the world are based on a belief in human rights.
But what are human rights?
Human rights, just like God and heaven, are just a story that we've invented.
Take a human being, cut him open, look inside, you will find the heart, the kidneys, neurons, hormones, DNA, but you won't find any rights.
The only place you find rights are in the stories that we have invented and spread around over the last few centuries.
Not everybody believes in God, not everybody believes in human rights, not everybody believes in nationalism, but everybody believes in money, and in the dollar bill.
But I believe it remains one of the greatest civil rights atrocities of our time.
And that moment, I promised myself I'd fight for equal rights and opportunities for boys and girls, men and women, the rest of my life.
A question I'm often asked is, where did I get my passion for human rights and justice?
So of course I had to be interested in human rights, and equality and justice, and using my elbows!
It was later when I started to work in African countries on issues of development and human rights.
And that made me realize that climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.
We were training women's rights, human rights, democracy, rule of law.
And does everyone have the opportunity to improve their lives, through rights, freedom of choice, freedom from discrimination, and access to the world's most advanced knowledge?
China has boomed economically, but hasn't made much headway on human rights or environmental issues.
These balancers include animal rights and environmental activists like Daniel McGowan.
When another prisoner, animal rights activist Andy Stepanian, was sent to a CMU, it was because of his anti-government and anti-corporate views.
Those prisons were eventually shut down, but only through the campaigning of religious groups and human rights advocates, like Amnesty International.
Today, civil rights lawyers with the Center for Constitutional Rights are challenging CMUs in court for depriving prisoners of their due process rights and for retaliating against them for their protected political and religious speech.
It is about our own commitment to human rights.
When I was in high school, I learned about the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, freedom of speech, due process and about 25 other laws and rights that seem to be violated by this.
I think the solution to any of these types of situations, any rights abuses, are really dependent on two things.
Although Germany is an advanced democracy, citizens are limited in their constitutional rights in its government district.
So we picked 15 countries in Asia, Africa and South America, countries outside the West that varied in terms of LGBT rights.
But, in 2007, Bhumika and Nepal's LGBT rights organization successfully petitioned the Nepali Supreme Court to protect against LGBT discrimination.
Whether we are gay, we are lesbian, we are transgender, bisexual or whatever sexual minority we come from, we have to all unite and fight for our rights.
Gay rights cannot be won in the court rooms, but in the hearts and the minds of the people.
And hopefully soon, the whole world will have the same rights.
And to my parents, they cannot understand why something as simple as fashion or women's rights would prevent me from seeing my brother again.
And so it should be not fearful, it should be inspiring to the same governments that fought for civil rights, free speech and democracy in the great wars of the last century, that today, for the first time in human history, we have a technical opportunity to make billions of people safer around the world that we've never had before in human history.
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