International Human Rights Solutions Journal Independent Thinking Outside the Box Seeking and Using Creativity, Ideas, and Opinions To Propose Solutions A Teaching Tool for the Classroom Raising Controversial Issues to Foster Creative Thinking One Tip: You Should Do Your Own Research Into These Topics Too Issue 1 March 2020 A Publication of Light Shadows Communications Copyright March 2020 by Sara Lee Irene Johann Contact Us At: IN THIS ISSUE I. The Rationale for International Human Rights II. The Case For Getting Rid of Patents on Pharmaceutical Products III. Controversies Regarding Statehood in Our Modern Day IV. How Effective Is the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court? V. Forced Sterilization of Persons Violates Their Human Rights: Agendas of Eugenics and Population Control The Goals of This Journal The first goal is to determine what laws exist, need enforcement or should be enacted internationally, to ensure that all persons have human dignity and human rights. The second goal is to ensure that persons and groups can exercise and enforce their human rights and achieve justice. The third goal is to inform and educate and seek input from people around the globe about human rights issues. The fourth goal is to invent creative solutions to human rights problems and encourage their implementation. Each topic will include questions for readers to consider which can also be used by educators as a teaching tool. Question for Our Readers Should An International Human Rights Court Be Created? Why or Why Not? Respond by Email: Rationale for International Human Rights Individuals are having their human rights and dignity violated all across the globe. Human rights must be examined on a very broad basis. Human rights are far broader than the right not to be tortured or subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment. Such rights include the right to life, liberty, and personal security of one's person, to equal protection under the law, to not be discriminated against, to not be arbitrarily arrested or detained, to own and not be wrongly deprived of property, to have a nationality, to marry and have a family, to freedom of expression, to electoral participation, to education, and to choose work and work under favorable conditions, and to unionize. Such rights also include the right to an adequate standard of living. These and other rights are in the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights which emphasizes that "everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized." That Declaration [available at https://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Documents/UDHR_Translations/eng.pdf] and subsequent treaties passed related thereto, set the global standards which define human rights. One of the most interesting provisions is No. 25 which states: 'Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.' We believe that international law guaranteeing and enforcing the basic human rights of all individuals will lead to a safer, happier, and more peaceful world.