Is it a right to be happy? (Philosophy)

Looking at the reviews of happiness, and how the several philosophers we have studied represent many different definitions on happiness, it raises the question of whether happiness is a basic right. It boils down to a deeper level, because truth and happiness go hand and hand, and is something that becomes self-evident. If we are born into happiness, does life, family, religion or faith remove or limit this so-called right? Humans are co-dependent on each other, and when something fails they fall back to their most basic forms of communication amongst each other. The humanitarian approach reveals that essentially there's a basic psychological right to knowing the truth behind happiness, and that while no one person understands its limits behind it, happiness has no boundaries it freedom is expressed openly. As Van Der Leeuw argued, happiness is something that is cognitive and something that is realized through expression of movement and emotion. Without the basic expressionistic approach, there would be no happiness to express, and an internal depression would divulge upon any happiness that would appear in the soul.