... address the above-mentioned issues. INTRODUCTION AND RATIONALE FOR STUDY The issue of human rights has been an issue worthy of discussion from as early as the 17th and 18th centuries where philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke argued the existence of natural rights (now called human rights). The French and American Revolutions gave evidence that human beings were frustrated with the unequal treatment that they received based on their class, religion, gender or ethnicity and with the abuses that they received from the hands of government. As a result, they fought to establish fundamental rights that every human being should be entitled with, no distinction being made based on their class, religion, sex or ethnicity. From these Revolutions emerged The Declaration of the French Revolutionary Assembly and The American Declaration of Independence. Both declarations enunciated the Rights of Man. The French Assembly stated "men are born free and equal, ...

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