2. The initial universal declaration adopted by
the United Nations
The subsequent modifications
The current stand of the UN on the issue
Further emphasis on New issues recently
recognized
The conflict between personal economic
interests and the human rights
Agriculture and human rights
3. Adopted by the UN on December 1948
The preamble states
“….Whereas disregard and contempt of human
rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have
outraged the conscience of mankind, and the
advent of a world in which human rights shall
enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom
from fear as want has been proclaimed as the
highest aspiration of the common people”
4. Adopted by the UN in January 1976
Its preamble states that
“….recognizing that in accordance with the
Universal declaration, the ideal of free human
being enjoying freedom from fear and want can
only be achieved if conditions are created
whereby everyone may enjoy economic, social
and cultural rights. As well as civil and political
rights…”
5. Adopted on September 2007
It concerns the following
Rights of indigenous people who have suffered
because of colonization, dispossession of their
lands
Respect and promote, inherent rights of people
which they derive from cultures, spiritual
traditions, histories and philosophies
6. Indigenous people and right to have control
over the factors affecting their lands,
territories and resources will be able to better
maintain and strengthen their culture and
traditions
The right of all people to be different, to
consider themselves different and be
respected as such
7. Some other interesting changes in definition
of human rights
Indigenous people shall not be forcibly removed
from their land
No relocation to take place without the prior
consent of the indigenous people and without
proper compensation
States shall consult indigenous people through
their own institutions
8. The right to natural resources also brings up
another dimension to the question of human
rights
Worth Mentioning is the case of the dongria konds
and the Nyamgiri hills
Mega trans nationals backed by their own
governments and international treaeties are
practicing a new form of slavery
Those whose rights are either not aware of it or
Are unable to fight this subversion since a false
legitimacy is crafted
9. In human development index
India ranks 119th amongst 169 countries
In human hunger index India is ranked
BELOW THE FOLLOWING
PAKISTAN
NEPAL
SRI LANKA
10. The emergence of genetic Engineering and
genetically modified (GM) food
The case of Bt cotton India, which claimed the
following
Increasing yield
Decrease in expenditure on pesticides
The truth about bt cotton
It cost more then traditional cotton seeds
It was tactically forwarded by big companies
There was a nexus between regulators and corporate
It was gross violation of human rights
11. The definition of human rights needs to
change with changing environment
The need for such changes generally arise
because of some gaps in the current
definitions
Human rights should not be in accordance
with economic elites but with everybody
Definition of human rights ought to be
progressive