Destructive Effects of Urban Challenges on the Quality of Citizens’ Right to Life

All living creatures have naturally their own needs. Subsequently, human beings, as the most privileged creatures, have a variety of needs which become more complicated than those of other creatures due to their endowment with reason and decision-making. These needs impose a group of rights and obligations on human beings, and in this way the status of human life will be revealed.
The primary and most evident right which every human being enjoys is the right to life, which gives rise to other rights. As much as the very essence of right to life and the necessity of respecting such right is important the quality of such right is of significance. This is explained by the fact that if such right is harmed, the outcome will be the same as the abrupt denial of this right with the only difference that denial will be gradual.
This article seeks to underline the significance of the quality of right to life in addition to providing several examples of urban challenges threatening the quality of citizens’ right to life with a view to drawing attention to the fact that in protecting the humans’ right to life, all harmful factors need to be identified and countered.