What if a single human right could change the world? | Kristen Wenz

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More than a billion people worldwide, mostly children, do not have a legal identity. In many countries, this means they can't get access to vital services like health care and education, says legal identity expert Kristen Wenz. She discusses why this problem is one of the greatest human rights violations of our time -- and shares five strategies to ensure everyone can get registered and protected.
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[@patriciaoffer9585]

Some people take for granted their knack for influencing others. They could be so useful.

[@julieclark3768]

Every human on the planet has a right to an identity!!

[@ArtArtisian]

Excellent cause and well presented - but I must admit the title feels off... I can't think of a human right that *wouldn't* change the world.

[@Whocaresaboutthishandle]

A very interesting and inspiring TED talk. Her audience unfortunately was too tough a crowd to appreciate her.

[@chancepricee]

Absolutely incredible, moving speech

[@johnbumster3950]

The world needs more people like this woman.

[@kenzieleigh4]

John Bumster and men we should all be equal

[@songmilee9135]

NO!

[@kristenwenz6637]

Thank you John! That is incredibly kind of you to say. I will keep doing my best and am grateful there are people like YOU in the world to offer support and show such kindness

[@johnbumster3950]

@@kristenwenz6637 thankyou for your response, and for being a wonderful human being.

[@letspass3465]

No one laughed at her little funny comment so I am: 😂😂😂😂😂

[@TheSilkyPickle]

Andrew Guevara so gracious! Such grace! I hope my grandson is as sweet as you dipped in sweetener one day

[@funkypants7297]

@@TheSilkyPickle hahaaa I love this comment

[@kristenwenz6637]

Actually ONE person laughed in the audience but they cut it out! Thanks for laughing at my dumb joke :)

[@PoeticProse7]

This is a problem for the Romani community as well and one of the reasons they are denied so much assistance and basic public services. I'm not sure that requiring a birth certificate is as much the answer as doing what we have here in the Twin Cities (a temporary identification for public services called an Adult Services card) for the homeless that cannot get or find birth certificates.

[@user-sc2pp4gv8k]

I'm a TED of fan

[@KenTheAdventurer]

Is Mark Wahlberg a fan?

[@user-js1ek4pl8o]

fan of TED 입니당~

[@kenn_k]

It's truly disappointing that some commenters are missing the point or don't see how important this is. The many problems this causes don't only affect these poor human beings, it affects everyone. I know there's a ton of people whose main concern is access to basic rights and identity, to end another person's suffering. There's also going to be a ton of people on the complete opposite side concerned with the fact these people are legally unaccounted for. That's the simplest I can make it sound to show that it is something that we really do need to bring into focus more than we recognize, no matter where you stand politically. But it ultimately goes way beyond that and affects many aspects of our world. Every life counts.

[@workingtravelingover50]

Thanks for talking about this argument.

[@aronpark3366]

I think she already adopted brother so She have compassion for Nationless peaple mind and I support and Agree abour she's opinion but actuallly if we did it we need time and support and individually support Step by Step Start from Today.

[@jackbottomly4420]

EXCELLENT ! !

[@Craftspenguin]

English subtitles are of some other video.

[@StyeAI]

She's so beautiful!!

[@michaelgillard3499]

I agree,also beautiful inside as well !? Xx

[@kristenwenz6637]

you are so kind to say that!

[@marwajd7548]

little things can make huge different ❤❤❤❤

[@danieldesta7534]

simply incredible!

[@JenniKayHMCTrainer]

I SEND THEM LOVE I SEND HOPE OF CHANGE I SEND HUMILITY I SEND COMPASSION I SEND CARE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND

[@divyamurugesan5557]

Good one. 👍👌

[@KingInasmuch]

inspirational

[@kristenwenz6637]

Thank you!!!!

[@rain_forest_waterx4093]

Ideas Like This Need To Be The Foundation Of What Our Goals Are As A Society And Need To Be Prioritized By Our Government And Legal Leaders. The Focus Of Day To Day Life As A Human Species Is Not Reaching It’s Full Potential And People With Influence And Legal Power Need To Provide More Solutions And Opportunity’s So The Quality Of Living Can Improve Globally. More Steps Need To Be Taken To Find Sustainable Solutions! KZbin And Ted Is Great But How Can Their Be More Progress Made? How Can Regular People Be Involved. Why Is Our Legal Leader Of USA Not Addressing These Problems With The United States Government Behind Him? I Would Love To Be Apart Of The Solution And Effort Into Making Sustainable Solutions For All Of These Problems That Affect The Modern World.

[@kristenwenz6637]

You can do so much by sharing the message. Governments are tying but there is not enough attention or resources dedicated to solving this problem. If it was solved so should so many other issues in the world. Keep talking about it, you will help change the world.

[@TheSilkyPickle]

So how does the title fit in with the talk? I’ve listened twice and haven’t caught that

[@mylindaweeks5725]

The right to a legal identity is the right the title refers to.

[@denalievers8517]

1 billion people don’t have a birth certificate. This means billions of people don’t have access to the most basic things. By giving those people a right to a legal identity, the world and the people’s lives would be very different

[@Hosenanzugtasche]

@@denalievers8517 Or, shocker, remove that barrier.

[@denalievers8517]

Catbus Driver Or, shocker, give people their birth certificates! Read a book or something I don’t have time for this

[@GodsAutobiography]

I identified it in the first 30 seconds...

[@freesk8]

I'd be happy with governments stopping violating the rights to property of the people. Did you know that the UN Declaration on Human Rights also includes a defense of the individual right to property?

[@theultimatewill8177]

Hmmm..I too have add this question asked to myself.

[@garimasingh5425]

I have been asking this from 2 decades....🙏✨🙄❤️💙🐦

[@JimzleGameplays]

The problem of the polio kid she mentioned wouldn't be fixed by giving her a birth certificate. In many countries, the governments are not interested in helping the poorest people of that count, regardless to if they 'exist' or not. Only when international NGO's come to such a country, these people are helped. Having a birth certificate and with those, human rights (theoretically), doesn't mean you get those rights in practice.

[@kristenwenz6637]

It doesn’t automatically give you a right... but with vaccines and in particular Polio (as my example) all governments DO want to irradiate this health risk therefore they need to know how many people there are and where they are so they can vaccinate all of them. If births are never recorded, the governments are unable to provide universal vaccines or health coverage.

[@Libertarian_Neighbor]

Hmmm, I have a birth certificate and the Government is actively limiting, my 1st, 2nd, 3rd (never thought that would happen, police just ordered to be allowed to use all private property), 4th, likely 6th if I’m arrested in the next year, 8th, 9th and 10th (Executive branch is out of control) amendment rights. At least I don’t have to incriminate myself and I can be sued by jury. Yay

[@TheMeanArena]

How so exactly?

[@rumfordc]

@@TheMeanArena just look around. depending on where they live they are probably not allowed to be specific.

[@TheMeanArena]

@@rumfordc That's why I'm asking. To know if they mean US or another country. I mean they're on the internet, they can give specifics if claiming it.

[@benverzijlbergen2968]

That sounds horrible! Have you thought about relocating?

[@Melesniannon]

@@TheMeanArena How he's describing the amendments generally, as well as the third and tenth specifically, are a dead giveaway that he's talking about the US. Now all that's left is the explanation of how they're exactly doing that but it's probably dung anyway. For example, the third amendment in fact refers to soldiers, not police, who are not soldiers. The police tends to be in the employ of the state, not the federal government. States don't have their own armies, though the federal goverment obviously also has a police force, they're commonly referred to as the FBI. Furthermore it ends with "but in a manner to be prescribed by law" which means that all it takes for this amendment to be not violated, is for there to be a law under which circumstances a soldier can actually be quartered in your home. If you take into account that states of emergency tend to trigger all kind of otherwise unusual laws, there's probably really little valid about a complaint that the amendment is being violated.

[@dionysus_smo]

Subtitles are off

[@jamiehay1027]

Interesting.

[@garimasingh5425]

😄❤️💙🐦✨🌀🔥♥️💋

[@freesk8]

"Badges? We don't got no badges. I don't got to show you no stinkin' badges!" "We don't need no piece of paper from the City Hall, keepin us tied and true."

[@chaimae7743]

Omg she's really a good speaker 💛💛💛

[@Hosenanzugtasche]

You must have seen horrors.

[@mevoy7598]

I did not see her comfortable, it's ok. The important thing is her message.

[@charlesgerety1403]

European countries have a human right to not have their native inhabitants not be replaced.

[@ranjul2589]

Correlate the video to the title , pulllleeezzzzzz !!!!!!!!!

[@SentoB]

It already is, can you not see the sheep being gathered? She mentioned it towards the end: 'woman's right'. At the head of this herd is the idea that rights are equivalent to freedom, as she spoke it so. Where these developing countries do their best to get their people out of poverty, those who irresponsibly procreate are supposedly owed a nation's birth certificate? If you believe that then really, you could never put yourself in the shoes of those people, those leading and doing their best for their country; I can assure that Kristen has not either.

[@BagelBoyyy]

@@SentoB Bro what?

[@ergohack]

The right she is referring to is the right to a legal identity.

[@fredgotpub871]

Here, a birth certificate is mandatory if you want to receive mney from social help services so everybody ask for it (and it's free !).

[@alpn113]

I have a take birth date. I don't know when i was born. I am considered young yet I am old. I take medication which am not supposed to tale because of my age.

[@garimasingh5425]

What medications?

[@ellycheikh770]

This right of human is among the rights waisted in Africa

[@MixitupMarci]

I was asking myself what if all crafty humans in the planet liked my tutorials, and everyone trapped at home now because of this virus tried to make them... would i be able to keep up with demand, having my kids home ? And then this videos gets out and im like.... what!??? 😱

[@kristenwenz6637]

It’s takes all of us. Keep up the good work!

[@TamPham-yr8fw]

Give me English subtitles, please. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@garimasingh5425]

English subtitles are there....turn it on! ☝️💁♥️

[@rozzyroze4177]

I LOVE CHILRED,ALL ARE BEAUTIFULL ,GOD BLESS ALL CHILDREN.

[@markmaugle4599]

Maybe the rule that requires a birth certificate is wrong.

[@radhikazinzuwadiya24]

how can I also give a ted talk, I really want to convey a message

[@carefulcarpenter]

I'm listening. Will you listen to my world-changing concept? 🐡

[@radhikazinzuwadiya24]

@@carefulcarpenter sure

[@HH-vq3nv]

Cool!!

[@1truefreedomfighter]

This is good stuff, but this wouldn’t be enough as a single right. It simply allows access to other, more important human rights. Maybe I’m being touchy here, but I feel the title here cheapens or assumes the rights you’re trying to empower access to.

[@celineguler]

People, I just want you to think for a second. Think about yourself, your life, your age, your past years, your memories, your thoughts, your dreams, your past. You wasted all. You wasted your life, your time, yourself. Just take a look back. Just think for a second what is going on around you, whats going on with people, whats going on in the world, whats going on in the universe, for god's sake. Have a meaning with yourselves. Think about around. You are not inadequate in any way. But be aware about it. Stop it with social media. Stop it with the harmful aspects of society. Stop with meaningless. Look around. We need you people, we need each other. We find questions and give answers for it. We find the problems, and we find the soultions. We go to space, find another planets, we make art, we predict the future, we make technology, we make music and sent it to the extraterrestrial lives out there. Be aware. Don't waste your life with meaningless. Wonder, search, investigate, discuss, create, and think. Reach sensible results. Find the meaning. You're not late. Young people out there, we are the future. We are going to find new questions and we're going to answer it. Stop with the meaningless popular culture, and dumb sides of society. Realise things doesn't matter. See the people are you as humans of your own kind. Not black, not white, not indian, not mexican, not italian, not ugly, not beautiful, not poor, not rich. Human. Earthling. Friend. Young people, we are the future. Do your best.

[@dr.amirkhan2381]

1st viewer 😊 Felling motivate after watching this video Love from India 🇮🇳

[@ness7_7_74]

Chill

[@ness7_7_74]

Chill

[@Allseasonaffair]

Here in the USA there is a reason your Birth certificate, drivers license and ss card are all in capital letters research and its not good. Seems like she is promoting id2020.org not good.

[@notcomatose6602]

Innocently. My grandchildren born at home. No ss number.

[@RealitySeSamjhe]

Is it recorded early

[@ergohack]

Posted over a month ago on ted.com with nearly 800,000 views to date.

[@naseeradel3182]

Extremely boring but very interesting topic

[@garimasingh5425]

ROFL 🤣

[@c8089923]

How about if we leave laws up to Nation States elected by their citizens and not some faceless unelected global bureaucracy?

[@Hardin9]

What relevance does this have to technology, entertainment or design?

[@kenn_k]

Humans are pretty important to all the things you mentioned.

[@batmanprotecteurtunisiaxi7950]

Film dreamcatcher 😉👌 je suis dudits🙌

[@bobdemott]

In the United States you cannot get help with a place to live unless you already have a place to live. If you are receiving aid to live somewhere you cannot get help with getting an education to get out of poverty because you you make too much money receiving help with housing. That is with a birth certificate. The problem of human rights in a country that has them are legislated away because you are poor.

[@amsh9946]

7:14

[@iliakaplan]

Freático material

[@Dr.exsack]

What are human rights worth in a world where the biggest and richest country's act like there are no human rights?

[@garimasingh5425]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@afei3071]

7:03 There is a woman in the lower right corner of the screen, she seems to be asleep

[@kristenwenz6637]

What’s your point?

[@crazywaffleking]

Unless you are living somewhere illegally you have an identity.

[@AurorasWorld]

She kinda looks like Kacey Musgraves

[@user-zb7fm6hj2g]

👏

[@banumathi2936]

Mobile phone data calprits is lote mostly miss use others data net its soo worstest people all cc ceo there is not at all take complient they did in ir take properly vi vodafone idea airtel bsnl jio all is worst if anybody come true service in it is it possible

[@lxc647]

A piece of paper makes you human 🤷‍♂️

[@letempsdechat]

It 'identifies' you as a human to participate in the system

[@TheSilkyPickle]

What if a double human left us alone in the first place eh eh? Am I right? Elbow elbow nyug nyug nyug

[@XOPOIIIO]

Child marriage and child labor is not an exploitation.

[@AtheistEve]

Of course they are, ya mook. Particularly child rape.

[@jackcomfirt1792]

Good sir

[@HuangGengran]

a billion?? no way

[@garimasingh5425]

Why not? We have power of Facebook 💙 today.....🌀🌀🌀💕💁🤣

[@garimasingh5425]

All thanks to MARK ZUCKERBERG 💙💙💙💙💙💙💕❤️🔥🙏✨♥️💋✌️

[@Hosenanzugtasche]

So, the human right to bureaucracy?

[@MajkaSrajka]

Yes. You are not considered human if you don't have the paper for it? Just sign them in on the spot, its not a problem if you at least slightly care about solving it.

[@Hosenanzugtasche]

@@MajkaSrajka Solving what? Solving bureaucracy? Then do away with this "a piece of paper makes you human" because all it is is a single point of failure invented so governments have more power over you for no good reason.

[@macktheripper7454]

What if TED talks went back to being interesting 🤔? With leaders in scientific fields talking about fascinating topics.

[@garimasingh5425]

🙄💁❤️🌀💕💁😒

[@achabejarano9729]

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difffference in the world

[@hardtruthhall7777]

You have no rights it's just an illusion

[@gkforeveryone1312]

In India women is nobody without men

[@garimasingh5425]

Sad reality 😔😓

[@jamesmoriarty9433]

This was terrible.

[@infoscrolls]

Bring back sam hyde

[@songbirdsandsandwiches8217]

Based

[@mohammedgiovanni4412]

ayyy NWO talks cool.

[@ness7_7_74]

Lol

[@nnoneymoney7642]

On my birth certificate it reads my name is Dino Sherman Dinosaur-paranoiD seemed like book ends for an institution. A Psychiatree Psychiatrick of epic proportion. The trick was forgery of Pi-r-square itself. T-r-ee is Pi-r-square forgery. EE ( energy squared ) Dino Sherman (c)

[@justiceisCLEAR]

Didn't keep Obama from becoming president!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@justiceisCLEAR]

Can't wait!

[@ItsMeeJon]

So she wants everyone to have a title of ownership so we can be traded like stocks

[@romaniitedomum57]

it's a whole lot easier to talk if you separate your teeth. open your jaw.

[@garimasingh5425]

What the f***? 😂🤣😂🤣

[@TheSonzeK]

What if i could fly?

[@TEPutnam]

If you could fly, while no other human beings could, then you would be in great danger. Governments, mercenaries, and corporations would hunt you. The people you know and love would be in constant danger. Your only hope would be to keep your ability secret, but if discovered, your only salvation would be a willing acquiescence to exploitation in the hopes that the faction with which you aligned could protect you.

[@prettyprudent5779]

Identity or not - we’re All going to DIE.

[@henrythegreatamerican8136]

One person already did change the world.... for the worse. His name is TRUMP! Having said that, the speaker is kinda cute.

[@TerenceMa1989]

This belongs to the comedy category

[@assadsalloum1975]

Bat soup man did

[@MosherMike]

They already did. They ate a bat soup in China. And the rest is history...

[@AtheistEve]

Just so you know, zoonotic pathogens come from all kinds of animals. So _all_ animal farming and habitat destruction are directly connected to outbreaks and pandemics. Last major pandemic, 1919, came from a poultry farmer in the USA. Recent SARS disease outbreaks came from camels and civet cats, this current pandemic indicates pangolin and bat. Measles, chickenpox, flu, common cold, smallpox, AIDS, ebola, leprosy etc all came from our lust to kill, eat, control and abuse animals and destroy their habitats. We should stop doing all that in every country.

[@mathmagician155]

5th wow I'm so cool

[@miky8788]

Supercoolwow

[@mathmagician155]

@@miky8788 supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

[@VenomousEndeavours]

Utter rubbage

[@abilioferreira90]

like the right to eat soup with bats or pangolin?

[@AtheistEve]

Just so you know, zoonotic pathogens come from all kinds of animals. So _all_ animal farming and habitat destruction are directly connected to outbreaks and pandemics. Last major pandemic, 1919, came from a poultry farmer in the USA.

[@ronin_user]

Your big ah-ha, is that we need ID tags for the man to identify us by number? Holy crap Batman. People are clueless.

[@shaunpatryck]

human right to bare arms!!!!!! guns baby!

[@AtheistEve]

Yes, bare arms - go sleeveless, for extra vitamin D.

[@shaunpatryck]

@@AtheistEve I mean if you like sleeveless shirts I guess.

[@AtheistEve]

Shaun Riley And we shouldn’t stop there. Bare legs are next. Fight for our right to bare legs.

[@shaunpatryck]

@@AtheistEve long cargo shorts are weird. I enjoy when fit women wear short shorts... so I agree within reason

[@mariammc2184]

The first comment

[@gildrax69]

Mariam Mc Indeed

[@ness7_7_74]

Chill

[@bathhatingcat8626]

So I should give money to corrupt international charities to help people get birth certificates?

[@williamwu7591]

Little weird body language

[@georgeunknown6381]

Why doesn't she talk about coronavirus?