Human Rights
HAS THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS CHANGED SINCE 1948?Nickel provides a very useful framework for analysis of whether the concept of human rights has changed since the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights . His framework attempts to explain how rights operate in society. Five fundamental elements of rights are identified: a) they have conditions of possession; b) they give the right to something specific; c) they have conditions of operability, and they can be engaged; d) they are addressed to someone specific; e) they hold weight and can be ranked. This essay will deal with a number of these elements of rights, and try to assess whether the ‘new’ rights have in fact changed these elements and whether this means that the concept of human rights has changed as a result. The most common argument over these new rights is over the conditions of possession, in other words who is the holder of the rights. It has been argued that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights assumes that only individuals can be the holder of these rights. In subsequent documents, however, the possessors of the rights were thought to include groups and not just individuals. For example the International Covenant on Civil and
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Approximate Word count = 1540
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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