ISSN: 2265-6294

The Human Rights Generations Hypothesis: Have Human Rights Really Developed In Four Generations?

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Hayan Ibrahim Hayder AL-khayyat

Abstract

When reviewing the literature of human rights, the most prominent feature of it is dividing it into individual and collective rights at times, or dividing it into basic and ordinary rights at other times, but there is another division of great importance, which is called “generations of human rights.” It is a hypothesis mentioned by the Czech lawman "Karel Vasak" for the first time when he divided human rights into three generations in his article published in the (UNESCO Bulletin) in November 1977. Vasak used the term in reference to the developments in the concept of human rights, The reason for choosing this division and studying it alone is that despite the fact that the division according to generations is the most famous in recent research and studies that dealt with the history of human rights, but this division is not based on a solid ground that proves its validity and realism, according to some researchers.

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