DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, National Human Rights Institution, United Nations Economic And Social Council
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1: esc rights as second generation rights, udhr: civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, negative & positives duties, human rights = universal, indivisible, interrelated and interconnected. Right to privacy, family life and home. Right to participate in cultural life, enjoy scientific share in the arts and advancement. The winter rains were approaching and she could not bear the idea of her three children wanting to go out of their little home-made shack having to wade through water. She and a thousand others mainly women, single parent families living in area not far from cape town, republic of south africa decided they were going to move. So they dragged their shelters to a nearby hill-side, which provided for decent draining, only to discover that when they tried to rebuild the shacks they were not allowed to do so. The land had been allocated for low-cost housing for 5000 people.
