Rights?

Bruce Alan Wilson bawilson at citynet.net
Thu Mar 23 03:50:46 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 149920

"Renee:
See the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 23
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

Right to employment: yes."

BAW:
Which document has as much legal force as any other United Nations
document--nil.  Of course, any organization that would make Libya (of all
countries) the head of their Human Rights Commission has very little credibility
on the issue of human rights. (Yes, one can argue that a treaty is legally
binding, but treaties that purport to dictate how sovereign nations manage their
internal affairs [as opposed to those regulating relations among nations] are
dicey, as sovereign nations by nature resist other countries attempting to
interfere with their internal self-government; that is what 'sovereign' MEANS
after all.)

How does this relate to HP?  The MOM seems to be a sovereign entity; hence,
unless its constitution or other foundational document contains provisions
establishing a 'right' to education, employment, or anything else, then that
right does not, effectively, exist within that sovereignty.  Also, even if we
concede that education and employment are human 'rights' on a par with freedom
of speech and the like, are werewolves fully human?  Arguably, no.









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