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This 6 page paper considers the issue of human rights. The paper starts by looking at what is meant by human rights and the foundations of the modern concept in the seventeenth century with Locke. The origins of current law are then explained and the way it is implemented in the UK is outlined with the paper ending with information about the human rights violations seen in Northern Ireland. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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countries and cultures allegedly have simply because they are people" (p 561). However, there is a basic misunderstanding in this statement, as it makes the same assumption that is dominant
in the discussion of human rights, as the guarantees are not rights, they are not enforceable under a single international law and the level at which they are protected varies
widely between different cultures and different countries (Nickel, 1987). The modern idea of human rights may be seen as the basic requirements for a minimally good life, and springs
from the ideas of natural law, meaning that there is a law that is more basic that that which is made by man, supports of this such as Aristotle and
the stoics such as Cicero and Seneca all looked to duty and the role of society, as such it was the society that mattered and ton the individual (Kenny, 2001).
Modern human rights start to appear with the works of John Locke, who, in his work; "Two Treatises of Government" suggested that individual have rights as well as duties, and
that they had the right to self preservation (Kenny, 2001). This is an embryonic notion of individual human rights, but it is a starting point. This was then built on
by philosophers such as Kat, and the culture has changed so that these are perceived as a natural right, even if not protected at law. Looking at the legislation
which exists today, the first influential document is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and also the European Convention on Human Rights (1954), as well as the main convention
that is cited being the International Bill of Rights which was completed in 1966 by the United Nations General Assembly, to which Great Britain was a signatory. This was followed
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