Universal Declaration of Sentient Rights

There are many reasons for the inefficacy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but perhaps the most pertinent explanation is the Declaration is rather ambiguous in its codification of various rights. Furthermore, several of the rights afforded by the Declaration have a logically untenable wording. The goal of this work is not to argue for or provide a list of specific rights to be included in a revised Declaration, but to evaluate the logical form of the rights already listed within the Declaration and to propose how the document could be made logically effectual.

Cuadernos Constitucionales De La Catedra Fadrique Furio Ceriol, 2008

Some Alternative and/or Complementary Declarations to The Universal Declaration of Human Rights «Respecting human rights involves a conscious effort to find our common essence beyond our apparent divisions, our temporary differences, and our ideological and cultural barriers».

Of course, the denial of human rights does not only result from a failure of understanding or of the imagination. It is often the result of a quite deliberate act of dispossession. The possession of human rights enables each of us to achieve our full potential; it entails the enjoyment of full citizenship, full participation in society and full claims to a share of society's resources. Denial of human rights involves dispossession at all these levels. It is because the struggle for human rights is never conclusively won that people everywhere need to be empowered to resist that dispossession.

Humanity of Rights , 2022

Claudio Corradetti's Human rights and critical theory is an argument for the idea of pluralistic universalism. The purpose of the volume is to demonstrate that human rights are something epochal and revolutionary, something that was realized at a specific historical moment, modernity, through a process of self-reflection. Subjects attain an idea of themselves as subjects and at the same time as subjects of law. In the following pages, while accepting Corradetti's thesis on the revolutionary character of human rights, I will argue the anthropological foundation of such rights, under penalty of the artificiality of the law itself. I will show that the subject of these rights cannot be considered one-dimensional nor can the law be fully resolved only in its legal formulation. The revolution of law is possible above all because the way of thinking of the subject's self-reflection in the world is revolutionary: not only as a legal actor, but as ontologically endowed with dignity and values whose rights are a legal and political expression. What is meant by "human being"? And what is the human being subject to law? What makes it possible to attribute the rights to an individual? Why, precisely in modernity, do you feel the need to organize rights legally and to formulate human rights, while maintaining that they are the prerequisite for being part of civil society? Through a brief reconstruction of some salient moments in the history of law up to modernity, I will propose some reflections on the underlying conception of human beings. This conception remains problematic, however, it is important to ask the question about the sense of "human being" and the fact that this question remains "open" both in the formulation of the idea of law and in the values on which we believe it is based. The idea is that the revolution brought about by modern law is so well beyond its logical and legal forms-which however remain essential-and is of consequence not only to a new vision of the world order but also of human beings.

Abstract: This paper combines a series of five essays on “the reality” of Universal Human Rights. It provides a background for and the reasoning behind the evolution and practicality of human rights on a global basis. It also identifies those human rights documents that the United States has failed to adopt in full. In terms of universality, the author has found that in a world of some 7.5 billion people, the governments of countries with a combined population of about 6.6 billion, roughly 88 percent of the total, have opted out of or failed to sign or ratify at least some provisions of the various treaties, covenants and protocols that make up the International Bill of Human Rights.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

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IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science

22. 5 The moral foundation of Human rights is also found in Article 1 of the Universal Declaration which says: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood".

AJIL Unbound

The seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) comes at a time of more contestation than usual over the future of human rights. A sense of urgency animates debates over whether the institutions and ideas of human rights can, or should, survive current geopolitical changes. This symposium, by contrast, shifts the lens to a more slow-moving but equally profound challenge to human rights law: how technology and its impacts on our social and physical environments are reshaping the debate on what it means to be human. Can the UDHR be recast for a time in which new technologies are continually altering how humans interact, and the legal status of robots, rivers, and apes alike are at times argued in the language of rights?

Brit. YB Int'l L., 1948