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Human Rights are complex and contested social practice that organises relations between individuals, society and the State. Comment.

  • UPSC 2022
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  • Rights

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The statement echoes Jack Donnelly's account of human rights as a social practice. For Donnelly, human rights are not just abstract values but particular social practices to realize those values. On this view, rights exist in being claimed, recognised and enforced. Almost everyone agrees that people deserve protection from arbitrary power. The dispute begins beyond…

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  • Human Rights as a Social Practice
  • Why Complex
  • Why Contested
  • How the Practice Organises Relations
  • Indian Illustration
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