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Universal Human Rights: A Generational History, Eric A. Engle
Universal Human Rights: A Generational History, Eric A. Engle
Eric A. Engle
The article outlines the generational theory of human rights evolving from first generation procedural individual freedoms from through second generation collective rights to into third generational aspirational goals. That model is generally true but womens rights and rights of non-white persons do not perfectly fit into that model being approximately one or even two generations delayed.