International Human Rights

Human Rights Understanding International Law

In 2014 while developing a program for our organization to provide diplomatic status for our international cooperation ambassadors we stumbled upon the existence of a legal state of being that exceeds the ideals of freedom and liberty plainly written in the law and under further development under the convention of the Global Citizenship Commission which had begun convening at York University in Scotland under Gordon Brown who is also the United Nations special Head of Global Education. The results delivered by the Global Citizenship Commission meetings resulted in the rewrite of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Providing Detailed Information About Human Liberty, Life, Freedom, and Civil Sustainability

The following links connect directly with the Open Book Publishers site where the document was first released on April 18th, 2016. The information presented here is the new basis for human rights globally in all nations that ratified the United Nations governed declaration since 1948.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights for the 21st Century (Neo-Citizenship)

Glossary					ix
Introduction by Gordon Brown					1
Preface by Paul Boghossian					7
Acknowledgments					9
Executive Summary					13
Preamble					25
1.	The Long and Influential Life of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights				29
	1.1	History of the UDHR			29
	1.2	Affirming and protecting the UDHR			31
	1.3	The changing context			32
	1.4	The enduring relevance of the UDHR			32
	1.5	Legal status			34
	1.6	Foundational principles			35
	1.7	Universality			36
	1.8	Interconnectivity of rights			38

2.	The Evolving Understanding of Rights				39
	2.1	Rights of members of specific groups			40
		a.	The rights of women		40
		b.	The rights of children		41
		c.	The rights of the disabled, including the profoundly disabled		43
		d.	Rights related to sexual orientation		44
		e.	The rights of prisoners		45
	2.2	Rights of groups as such			46
		a.	The right to national self-determination, including regional autonomy and subsidiarity		46
		b.	The rights of indigenous peoples		47
		c.	Ethnic cleansing		47
		d.	The rights of peoples prejudiced at the national or communal level by climate change		47
	2.3	Rights related to other issues involving vital interests			48
		a.	Migration		48
		b.	Statelessness		50
		c.	Administrative justice		51
		d.	Corruption		51
		e.	Privacy from state or corporate electronic surveillance		52
		f.	Access to the Internet and electronic communication on a global scale		53
		g.	Extreme poverty and deep economic inequality		53
		h.	Healthcare		54
		i.	A safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment		55
	2.4	An open task			56

3.	Limitations and Derogations				57
	3.1	Adequacy of Article 29 account of limitations			57
	3.2	Derogation of rights in national or international emergencies			59
	3.3	Regulation of the use of force			60

4.	Social and Economic Rights				63
	4.1	The importance of social and economic rights			63
	4.2	Relation to availability of resources			65
	4.3	Responsibilities for social and economic rights			66
	4.4	Poverty reduction and other human rights			69

5.	Responsibility for Human Rights				71
	5.1	The special role of states			72
	5.2	Other entities			73
		a.	Sub-national governments		74
		b.	International institutions		74
		c.	Corporations		74
		d.	Private persons		76
	5.3	Responsibilities of rights-bearers			77
	5.4	No closed model of responsibility			79

6.	Implementation of Human Rights				81
	6.1	Introduction			81
	6.2	State of play on representative rights			82
		a.	Anti-slavery (Article 4)		83
		b.	Anti-torture (Article 5)		84
		c.	Free expression (Article 19) and free association (Article 20)		86
		d.	Education (Article 26)		88
		e.	Summary		90
	6.3	Suggestions on implementation			91
		a.	Recommendations for strengthening the UN system on human rights implementation		91
			i.	Implement the recommendations of UN human rights mechanisms	91
			ii.	Enhance the OHCHR’s field presence	92
			iii.	Raise human rights concerns for consideration by the UN Security Council	93
			iv.	Limit the UN Security Council veto in the case of mass atrocities	94
			v.	Harness technology to enhance human rights accountability	94
		b.	National and regional legal systems		95
		c.	NGOs		97
		d.	Human rights education		97
			i.	The UDHR and human rights education for all	97
			ii.	The UDHR and human rights education since 1948	98
			iii.	Transformative human rights education	99
			iv.	Advancing transformative human rights education	99
	6.4	Sovereignty			100
		a.	General (human rights as limits on sovereignty)		100
		b.	Sanctions, denunciations, and other measures		101
		c.	Responsibility to Protect		102

7.	Human Rights and a Global Ethic				105

Appendices					109
	A	The Universal Declaration of Human Rights			109
	B	Members of the Commission			117
	C	Members of the Philosophers' Committee			131
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	D	Human Rights Education
	E	Human Rights Implementation

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