Year: 2004

Atrocities in a shrinking world create a demand for clear principles of human rights. Recent developments have made clear the necessity of limiting attempts to enforce them directly, and placing them in a system that recognizes the human need for particularity and substantive concrete loyalties. To facilitate discussion, we have put together a proposal for … More ...

Here are links and discussions relating to human rights from the perspective of the human rights movement:

• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library is a good place to start
• Yahoo is a useful source of human rights news.
• The Historical Significance of the Universal Declaration by Asbjorn Eide. An historical and conceptual discussion of

The following sites present criticisms and complaints regarding “human rights,” at least as now generally understood and institutionalized.

• What’s Wrong with Human Rights?. A general discussion by the author of this site (also available in Spanish that emphasizes the UDHR.
• Paul Treanor on “Why human rights are wrong.” The conception and its institutionalization, he

At present there are practical limits to the effects of human rights theory. However, it is in principle an absolutist ideology that enjoys the support of elites worldwide. In order to safeguard its beneficial aspects, principled limitations are necessary to make it consistent with tradition and subsidiarity.

What is to be done about human rights?… More ...

The current human rights movement proposes a comprehensive system of social morality. That system demands forcible action to promote universal equality and guarantee the well-being of everyone in the world. Universal empire is therefore its natural organizational form, and opposition to empire, in the name of limited government and particularism, is opposition to what now … More ...