SOSC 2351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jeane Kirkpatrick, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Neoliberalism
20 Dec 2016
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The udhr, which officially recognized economic rights as equally legitimate to social, cultural, civil and political rights. The icescr, international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights, which sought to make these rights legally binding obligations. The modern idea of economic rights arose in the 19th century, in response to the injustices experienced by workers during the industrial revolution, and as a product of. You can see that in confucianism too, as confucius stressed the obligations of rulers to provide goods such as food and education. But the modern idea really bloomed during the enlightenment and industrial era. John locke: in second treatise of government (1690): postulated the right to private property. Thomas paine (american revolutionary): in the rights of man (1791): referred to the. Rights to subsistence, to some form of social security, to education and to employment.
