Sentences with phrase «articulate universal human rights»

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In agreement with most nonteleological expressions in the liberal political tradition, this theory affirms that rights articulate a universal or natural moral law; but, against the persisting weight of the modern natural law tradition, the universal right to general emancipation is not bound to the assertion that human rights are independent of any inclusive good.

We can also say, then, that all human individuals always have the rights that define them as potential participants in moral discourse, one of which is the right to be or become an actual participant in such discourse, and these universal rights articulate a universal social practice.

The right to science is articulated both in a multilateral treaty — the 1966 Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights — and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which first recognized the right internationally.