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Everyone has a right to live.
Everyone has a right to live in their home.
Everyone has a right to full equality wherever they live.
These should be our starting points.
@evan I think you run into trouble with the second of these - "my homeland" is subjective, and open to arguments about who got their first, last, for the longest...
@dneary actually, I don't run into trouble with that at all.
But I changed it to "home" to make it clearer.
@evan also:
No one has a right to commit war crimes
Human rights trump head-of-state priorities
Nation states have many responsibilities - inside and outside of their borders
And a people are not their government which is why collective punishment is a war crime. It is not bad, it is a responsibility to hold one’s government to account. Where you can’t be self governed it is incumbent upon nation states to uphold their responsibilities to you
"If you were born anywhere on this planet, you have a right to live anywhere on this planet", I say.
@evan
Good starting point, but not enough, in my opinion: it's all about attitude change, we need to see all men living in one country, united in diversity. All the rest is just limitations, borders and barriers made up by men and their prejudices.