 | Chameleon asked: What is the difference between your putative Charter
and, say, The
International Declaration of Human Rights? Would this Charter have
some legal status? Who would police it or even champion it? What might
be the value or the worth of it?
Joseph H answers: The UNDHR sets out in some detail such rights as are
currently thought appropriate to human existence. I describe it in
these relative terms because (a) many of these rights are of quite
recent origin and (b) many are open to interpretation and/or dispute.
The concept of rights is as old as the human but the notion of
globalising them is quite recent and is a reflection of a general
globalisation of human issues. The notion of a Charter extends this
ambition somewhat further. It does not possess the clarity or the
experise of the UNDHR but seeks an overview as to what human beings
might reasonably expect from their existence - i.e how much they might
know, what they might value etc. Such a Charter will certainly draw
from current expectations regarding rights - but I'm less interested
in some "assertive" element of rights than in constructing a body of
demands and expectations based on increasing knowledge of ourselves
and of our planet. In other words, I seek to "build up" a sense of
what we should expect rather than merely asserting same. As many have
already discerned, I'm still quite vague in many areas but throw the
idea out to get some feedback. Which is happening.....!
Joseph H
www.humanisation.org
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