Saturday April 04, 2009
Who counts as 'human'?
Costas Douzinas
The Guardian
Those of the wrong class, gender, colour or sexuality have always been left outside locally defined 'humanity' – where does this leave a bill of rights?
A number of posts responding to this series have argued that human rights are self-evident, that they are expressions of the good society or, more extravagantly, that they are natural properties attaching to people like arms or legs. Common to these arguments is the assertion that rights belong to humans on account of their humanity and not of a narrower membership such as nation or state.
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