{"id":1000,"date":"2026-08-09T18:45:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/what-do-you-understand-by-three-generations-of-human-rights-upsc-psir-2013-0502\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:53:20","slug":"what-do-you-understand-by-three-generations-of-human-rights-upsc-psir-2013-0502","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/what-do-you-understand-by-three-generations-of-human-rights-upsc-psir-2013-0502\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you understand by three generations of Human Rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>\u2014 how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> rights not fixed <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> scope widens with the idea of dignity <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b>Vasak\u2019s<\/b> three generations<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> generations \u2260 hierarchy <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> three successive answers to what dignity demands<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p><b class=\"pq-sc\">Vasak<\/b> classifies <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> first gen (civil-political \/ negative \u201cblue\u201d \/ restraint on the state; Magna Carta, French Declaration; UDHR 3\u201321) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> second gen (socio-economic-cultural \/ \u201cred\u201d \/ positive state action; industrialisation, socialism, welfare; UDHR 22\u201328) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> third gen (collective-solidarity \/ protects communities; decolonisation, inequality 1960s\u201370s; self-determination, development, peace, environment; Stockholm, Rio)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p><b class=\"pq-sc\">Cranston<\/b> (no resources <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> no rights) + <b class=\"pq-sc\">Hayek<\/b> (central planning drains citizen power) vs <b class=\"pq-sc\">Waldron<\/b> (the next step to realise the first)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> useful to classify, wrong to rank<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> indivisible + interdependent <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> liberty without security is weak; welfare without freedom turns authoritarian<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[46],"pyq_marks":[31],"pyq_topic":[50],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1000","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-46","pyq_marks-20-marks","pyq_topic-rights","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4594,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1000\/revisions\/4594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}