Table des matières

Glossary

Gordon Brown

Introduction

Paul Boghossian

Preface

Diane C. Yu

Acknowledgments

Executive Summary

• The Long and Influential Life of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• The Evolving Understanding of Rights
• Limitations and Derogations
• Social and Economic Rights
• Responsibility for Human Rights
• Implementation of Human Rights
• State of play on representative rights
• Suggestions on implementation
• UN system of human rights implementation
• National and regional legal systems
• Non-governmental organizations
• Human rights education
• Sovereignty
• Human Rights and a Global Ethic

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 1948
• 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

• PREAMBLE

Appendix B: Members of the Commission

Appendix C: Members of the Philosophers’ Committee