Educating People about Universal Declaration of Human Rights 

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the most important document in the 20th century that has been translated in different languages that aims to spell out the right of a human person about what he/she is entitled of. Upon reading the articles, I actually had a hard time to choose given that I should base on their relevance. Our country is suffering from different issues like corruption, killings, drugs, violations, inequality, stereotyping and many more. These are the main reasons why it took me hour to decide.

Last month, I remembered watching television and Mariel Padilla, an actress, mentioned that she did sign any documents regarding the religion of her child. She gave her child the freedom to choose once the child reach the right age. It actually made me think and realized a lot of things. Religion has a huge influence on our perspective and daily lives. In our birth certificate, only our parent’s religion are indicated. Nowhere in the section have I seen our or the infant’s religion. Therefore, the only certificate that will associate us to a specific religion is upon baptismal and this is actually considered as a violation to the freedom of religion. But, what the article 18 is pertaining is about changing his religion or belief, and freedom to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. I have a lot of friends and relatives who actually changed their religion. At first, I kept on asking what’s so special about other religion. I asked my uncle who changed his religion if he is happy and what made him decide that. He simply told me that his heart had lead him. From being an alcoholic person, I see him now as a person who always read the Bible. As we grow older, we tend to question everything in life and even our belief. This has actually the same concept as the reflective morality where in customs, traditions, rules and ethical theories should be carefully analyzed and critically evaluated before we continue or stop to live by them.

I believe that we can promote this right by educating people. Letting them aware about the things they don’t seem to care about. We should always remember that we can never force someone to change his/her belief, we must let other people be the one to discover them. Inclining ourselves with appropriate belief usually results to a better perspective of living. Religion just like culture is a way of life and freedom of religion can help produce educated people that will lead to a better.