HUMR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Norberto Bobbio, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Arbitrary Arrest And Detention

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Marshall evolution of citizenship rights; analogy to 3 generations of hr [in foreword] Human rights [hr] abuses in the world today. The un introduction of the universal declaration of human rights [udhr] in 1948 = new optimism, possibilities for a better world [peace, progress, prosperity] Today, 60-70 years later, worldwide violations of individual and collective hr : censorship, discrimination, political imprisonments, torture, slavery, disappearances, genocide, poverty, refugees, the rights of women, children, and other groups, alongside the environmental crisis are largely ignored. The top 10 states the worst abusers of hr worldwide in the 1990s: In 1998 (50th anniversary of udhr) the british newspaper observer published a poll called the hr index" ranking 194 nation-states according to their record on hr abuses (see table i. 1, pp. Similar index published by guardian (slightly different indicators and simpler ranking system yet different countries the worst 10 see table i. 2, pp.

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