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ITHAS been claimed that "we need a legal bulwark of human rights" (editorial, March 19). It is not clear that we do need such a bulwark, nor that, if we do, the European Convention of so-called "human rights" provides one. I agree passionately that there are human rights and, more fundamentally, that there are human duties whose existence is prior to governments and to laws.
But human rights are not human rights because they are so declared to be. Actual human rights are not merely prior to governments, they are prior to declarations of so-called "human rights" no matterwho orwhat declares them.See the full content of this document
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Human Rights
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