The rights idea: knowledge, human rights, and change.(do ideas matter? ACADEMY AND POLICY)(Irene Khan - Amnesty International)(Interview)

From: Harvard International Review | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Amnesty International is committed to the principles of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Did this document invent the concept of human rights or express latent ideas? Where did the idea of human rights arise?

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The idea of human rights predates the UDHR and is grounded in values of human dignity, justice, and freedom that have been present in philosophical and religious thought for hundreds of years. The UDHR formalized these values and principles.

Is that concept of human dignity grounded in any particular philosophy? Is it a ...

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