Political_Science

Political Science Human Rights as a Common Concern The doctrine of human rights has come to play a distinctive role in international life. Primarily, the doctrine is a standard of assessment and criticism for domestic institutions, a standard of aspirations for reform, and a standard of evaluation for the policies and practices of international economic and political institutions. Some theorists argue that human rights is too broad and must be construed more narrowly. The author argues against that perspective and in favor of the view implicit in contemporary international practice, using the right to democratic institutions. More than fifty years have passed since the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in that time the doctrine of human rights has come to play a distinctive rights, human, international, standard, institutions, doctrine, standards, role, politics, play, moral, life, economic, domestic, distinctive, concerns, concern, come, action, about, years, world, willingness, whose, visible, violations, view, various, using, universal, unexpected, un, time, theorists, suspicions, suspicion