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During their recent visit to Ukraine Workers’ Liberty members met with some members of the student organisation Direct Action (Priama Diia) in Lviv. The Direct Action organisation of today, they explained, is the latest version of a succession of student organisations which have periodically existed under that name since the 1990s. Today’s Direct Action has existed for just over a year.
During their recent visit to Ukraine Workers’ Liberty members met with some members of the student organisation Direct Action (Priama Diia) in Lviv. The Direct Action organisation of today, they explained, is the latest version of a succession of student organisations which have periodically existed under that name since the 1990s. Today’s Direct Action has existed for just over a year.
Summary The idea of rights is central to our moral vocabulary. Over the past century, however, the concept of rights has changed significantly: the original faculties-based natural rights doctrine is being replaced by a needs-based and dependency-based human rights doctrine. This change is best represented in the sharp contrast between rights claims expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. This shift in theory has and will continue to have broad practical consequences. The human rights view, in understanding human beings as ...