"SPIRITUAL RIGHTS" - THE MISSING RIGHTS?

The continuing neglect of Human Spiritual Rights by the United Nations, in their `Universal Declaration of Human Rights', and governments, gives me a cause for concern. Not only do I think it is about time this was reversed but, I also believe that Spiritual Rights deserves recognition and protection, because without it, human beings can never really be free.

For this reason, I believe that a `Spiritual' element needs be incorporaed into any acceptable definition of `Freedom', because no one is really free unless he is spiritually free

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* United Nations General Assembly Hall

The Missing Rights of Man

Spiritual Rights is a `natural right', accruable to everyone because human beings are both physical and spiritual - and this right should be protected and guaranteed as well. Unaguably therefore, of all the rights of man that has been recognized and protected, this natural right, is still conpicously missing from the list. So, I sat down in front of my PC, pecked in `spiritual rights' on google but the closest I got to what I was hoping for was inside the blog by the `Jamilian University Of The Ordained'. It wrote that `The Universal Proclamation of Human Spiritual Rights HSR, contains the tenets of the Advocates for Religious Rights and Freedoms of the International Community of Christ'. It clarified that `it is a statement of the spiritual rights held to be the God-granted rights of the human family and, was originally adopted in 1962'.

Since this conclusion by this group has not stired up controversy, my objective is not to centre this piece in disprooving their conclusions. Nevertheless, as a Spiritual Rights Campaigner, I am aware that the subject of human spiritual rights should transend faiths and religious divides. The reason is that by nature, human beings are both spiritual and physical, and this reality is not altered by race, geography, biology or religious inclination.

There is, therefore no doubt, that spiritual abuse happens in all cultures and environments around us, and more, it is not restricted to any one religion. Spiritual abuse, spiritual torture and spiritual terrorism are all actions of man, defined as an `evil of manipulating, and intentionally deploying spiritual and elemental forces, against human and material targets, for negative outcomes'. Spiritual abuse, of the extreme form, is also otherwise, called `Spiritual Terrorism'.

Why I find the proclaimation of the Jamilian University of the Ordained disagreeable, is that I believe that spiritual rights should be the privilege of every human being - just like civil rights, economic rights, social rights, cultural rights and all other rights we have had to claim and assert.

Government should do their bit to recognise, guarantee and protect human spiritual rights. Then, human beings can really be free.

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