HUMAN RIGHTS

Human Rights

Human Rights

Introduction

Human privileges are a western notion that does not request to Asian countries.”The reason of this term paper is to critically assess the contention that human privileges are a western notion that does not request to Asian countries. The term paper focuses on South East Asia and contends that while the notion of human privileges is universal in idea and values, there are limitations to its implementation and enforcement in Asian nations due to socio-economic development anxieties, heritage dissimilarities, and the patriarchal environment of Asian societies.

Discussion

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was taken up by the United Nations in 1948 and has been approved by almost 200 countries. The adoption of the Declaration was premised on ethics and ethics arising from a yearn amidst territory states to double-check that the atrocities of World War Two would not recur (Magendzo 1994; Misgeld 1994; Wronka 1994). The Declaration stipulates privileges that are advised rudimentary and universal to all humans, transcending dissimilarities in rush, heritage or ethnicity. The four rudimentary tenets of the Declaration include: the right to human dignity, municipal and political privileges, financial, communal and heritage privileges, and solidarity rights. These tenets are the base for universalistic values and worldwide human privileges regulation (Buergenthal 1988; Renteln 1990; Shelley 1989). Wasserstrom (1964: 50) has articulated four characterising characteristics of human privileges as a universal concept:First, it should be owned by all human beings, as well as only by human beings. Second, because it is the identical right that all human beings own, it should be owned identically by all human beings. Third, because human privileges are owned by all human beings, we can direct out as likely candidates any of those privileges which one might have in virtue of occupying any specific rank or connection, for ...