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Ashwani Kumar | Reassert ‘core’ values & halt democracy’s decay
Published : Jan 9, 2021, 7:21 am IST
Updated : Jan 9, 2021, 7:21 am IST
As the highest forum of democracy, Parliament too cannot escape its share of responsibility for our faltering record on human rights
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In his book
The Age Rights (1990), Prof Louis Henkin, a celebrated scholar of international law, had claimed “
human rights is the idea of our time, the only political-moral idea that has received universal acceptance”. However, an objective analysis of the situation throughout the world, including India, belies that claim.
This disquieting conclusion flows from a distressing institutional response to the egregious infraction of human rights, raising a profoundly important question on the functioning of our democratic institutions. Repeated abuse of several stringent laws with punitive consequences has resulted from a reversal of the presumption of
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In his book
The Age of Rights, Prof. Louis Henkin, a celebrated scholar of international law, had claimed that “human rights is the idea of our time, the only political–moral idea that has received universal acceptance”. Viewed in the light of several international treaties and democratic constitutions which recognise the inviolability of human rights, the claim is valid. But whether democracies across the world have, in fact, delivered on the promise of a world order founded on human rights is another matter. An objective analysis of the situation in our country regrettably belies the lofty claim.
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