Human Rights And The Third World

Key Features

• The article discusses the controversial questions of human rights and the Third World.
• It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and seeks to open up a discursive space in the human rights discourse to address unresolved questions.
• The article cites issues and problems from different countries in the Third World to illustrate the points it is making.
• One of the questions the article discusses is whether or not alternative perspectives should be taken as the standard for human rights in the Third World. The article argues that these perspectives should be taken into account.
• The article also argues that there should be a universalistic notion of rights for Homo sapiens, even if these rights are different in different parts of the world.
• The article also discusses how far these Third World perspectives of human rights can ensure the protection of the minorities and the vulnerable sections of population.
• The article also discusses how these perspectives can help in fighting the Third World problems like poverty, hunger, corruption, despotism, social exclusion like the caste system in India, communalism, and the like.
• The article concludes by discussing how reconciliation between the Third World perspectives and the Western perspective of human rights can be achieved.