The Evolution of Human Rights in India
Keywords:
The Preamble, the Fundamental Rights and the Directive Principles of State Policy, Right, Equality, Liberty, Democracy, SovereigntyAbstract
The Constitution of India lays down the basic structure of a nation's polity that is built on the foundations of noticeable fundamental values. The vision of our founding fathers and primary objective of India which they wanted to achieve through the Constitution are contained in the Preamble, the Fundamental Rights and the Directive Principles of State Policy. Based on the Objective Resolution (that defined the aim of the Constituent Assembly) moved by late Prime Minister of India Shri Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in 1946, our Constitution gave institutional expression to these fundamental commitments : equality, sovereignty, liberty , democracy and a cosmopolitan identity. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nation General Assembly in 1948. This UDHR declaration represents the first global expression of human rights to which all human beings are entitled. It is described as the ―International Magna Carta". The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a landmark document in the history of human rights. It begins, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages. It is universally recognized that Human right and Fundamental Freedoms are the birth right of all Human being. The objective of study is to investigate the Historical Development of Human Right and analyze the philosophical thinking.
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