Starkey, H; (2012) Human Rights and Education. In: Banks, J, (ed.) Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education. (pp. 1115-1118). SAGE: London, UK.

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Human rights were adopted as the underlying principle of international law in the Charter of the United Nations (1945). The United Nations was established to support international efforts to achieve justice, peace and freedom in the world through new diplomatic institutions and simultaneously the promotion and protection of human rights. Human rights are the codification of principles for living together based on acceptance that human beings are endowed with inherent dignity and are equally entitled to human rights. They are particularly relevant to considerations of diversity in education since they provide a universally recognised standard that applies irrespective of origin, status, culture or language. The recognition in international law of the entitlement to equal rights is not always observed in practice by governments and authorities. This does not, however, diminish the moral force of human rights discourse. Human rights provide powerful rhetorical leverage in struggles for dignity and equality, since local issues become global and call in solidarity from around the world.

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