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JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE STATE: TO HAVE A RIGHT IS TO HAVE SOMETHING WHICH SOCIETY OUGHT TO DEFEND ME FOR. (John Stuart Mill)

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Food for a how-to-defend-ourselves thought   Human Rights Reader 278   -“Man is a social animal. Therefore he is a political animal as well”. -Members of society who depend most upon an acceptable theory of justice are its poorer, marginalized and less powerful members. It is for them that a just society is most crucial. [...]

POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS.

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“I have often been asked what is the most serious form of human rights violation in the world today, and my reply is consistent: extreme poverty. “ Mary Robinson




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