International Human Rights

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Write an essay on ONE of these topics:
1. Is it possible to accommodate first-, second- and third-generation human rights in an integrated legal or governmental framework, or are there too many contradictions and incompatibilities among them?
2. ‘It is necessary to place limits on democracy in order to promote human rights.’ Discuss.
3. ‘Economic ‘rights’ are not rights but aspirations, because they are not quantifiable or limitable, and because they diminish the individual’s responsibility for his/her own economic circumstances’. Critically evaluate this assertion.
Several sites, especially those of the UN, are useful in providing data in areas such as education, health, housing, employment. For example:
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012, Rome. 2012.
• International Labor Organization, Statistical Databases
• United Nations, The Millennium Development Goals
• United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2013.
• UNESCO Institute for statistics, Global Education Digest 2012
• World Health Organization, World Health Report