The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century

Glossary

Introduction by Gordon Brown

Preface by Paul Boghossian

Acknowledgments

Executive Summary

Preamble

1. The Long and Influential Life of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1.1 History of the UDHR

1.2 Affirming and protecting the UDHR

1.3 The changing context

1.4 The enduring relevance of the UDHR

1.5 Legal status

1.6 Foundational principles

1.7 Universality

1.8 Interconnectivity of rights

2. The Evolving Understanding of Rights

2.1 Rights of members of specific groups

a. The rights of women

b. The rights of children

c. The rights of the disabled, including the profoundly disabled

d. Rights related to sexual orientation

e. The rights of prisoners

2.2 Rights of groups as such

a. The right to national self-determination, including regional autonomy and subsidiarity

b. The rights of indigenous peoples

c. Ethnic cleansing

d. The rights of peoples prejudiced at the national or communal level by climate change

2.3 Rights related to other issues involving vital interests

a. Migration

b. Statelessness

c. Administrative justice

d. Corruption

e. Privacy from state or corporate electronic surveillance

f. Access to the Internet and electronic communication on a global scale

g. Extreme poverty and deep economic inequality

h. Healthcare

i. A safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment

2.4 An open task

3. Limitations and Derogations

3.1 Adequacy of Article 29 account of limitations

3.2 Derogation of rights in national or international emergencies

3.3 Regulation of the use of force

4. Social and Economic Rights

4.1 The importance of social and economic rights

4.2 Relation to availability of resources

4.3 Responsibilities for social and economic rights

4.4 Poverty reduction and other human rights

5. Responsibility for Human Rights

5.1 The special role of states

5.2 Other entities

a. Sub-national governments

b. International institutions

c. Corporations

d. Private persons

5.3 Responsibilities of rights-bearers

5.4 No closed model of responsibility

6. Implementation of Human Rights

6.1 Introduction

6.2 State of play on representative rights

a. Anti-slavery (Article 4)

b. Anti-torture (Article 5)

c. Free expression (Article 19) and free association (Article 20)

d. Education (Article 26)

e. Summary

6.3 Suggestions on implementation

a. Recommendations for strengthening the UN system on human rights implementation

i. Implement the recommendations of UN human rights mechanisms

ii. Enhance the OHCHR’s field presence

iii. Raise human rights concerns for consideration by the UN Security Council

iv. Limit the UN Security Council veto in the case of mass atrocities

v. Harness technology to enhance human rights accountability

b. National and regional legal systems

c. NGOs

d. Human rights education

i. The UDHR and human rights education for all

ii. The UDHR and human rights education since

iii. Transformative human rights education

iv. Advancing transformative human rights education

6.4 Sovereignty

a. General (human rights as limits on sovereignty)

b. Sanctions, denunciations, and other measures

c. Responsibility to Protect

7. Human Rights and a Global Ethic

Appendix A: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Appendix B: Members of the Commission

Appendix C: Members of the Philosophers' Committee

Online Appendices

Appendix D: Human Rights Education

Appendix E: Human Rights Implementation