The Fate of Human Rights in the Third World

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ID6411852
AuthorsRupert Emerson (Harvard University Press, corresponding author)
Year1975
Volume27
Issue2
Pages201-226
Publication date1975-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2009881
OpenAlexW2021072615
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited11

The new Asian and African states have laid much stress on human rights, but have often not lived up to them. The basic right of self-determination has been limited to colonies only. Democratic institutions have generally given way to authoritarian regimes, often run by the military, with popular participation denied rather than encouraged. The right to life, liberty, and security of person has been grossly violated in the cases of millions of refugees, temporary and permanent, in Africa and the Asian subcontinent. Many hundreds of thousands have been killed in domestic conflicts, as in Indonesia, Nigeria, and Burundi. One of the results is the emergence of a double standard: an all-out African and Asian attack upon the denial of human rights involved in colonialism and racial discrimination, but a refusal to face up to massive violations of human rights in the Third World itself

Authoritarianism · Colonialism · Democracy · Denial · Development economics · Economics · Face (sociological concept · Human rights · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · International Law and Human Rights · Law

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