(Amrit Pal Singh ‘Amrit’)

Article 6
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
(The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations)

The right to recognition as a person is very vital, despite the fact that it is usually uncared for.

What does it mean to have the right to recognition as a person? It is the right to be recognised as a person or an individual, that is to say the right to be recognised as a human being before the law.

For the law, a person is a person, a human being. Men and women, persons belonging to the majority and persons belonging to minorities, all are humans in the first place.

A person has the right to recognition as a person, not as a man or woman. It means the law will be equal for men and women. The right to recognition as a person makes it in no doubt that any person is not denied his/her right, because s/he is a male or a female. No person shall be made victim of any gender biased law

A person has the right to recognition as a person, not as a person belonging to racial/religious/ethnic majority group or a person belonging to racial/religious/ethnic minority group. It means any person shall not be denied his/her right, because s/he belongs to majority or minority group.

Furthermore, the right to recognition is enjoyed everywhere. If a person enjoys his/her right at one place and is denied the same somewhere else, it is a gross infringement of fundamental human rights described in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.