{"id":216574,"date":"2019-07-06T16:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=216574"},"modified":"2019-07-06T15:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T09:34:09","slug":"hpnlu-international-conference-on-human-rights-democracy-and-human-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/07\/06\/hpnlu-international-conference-on-human-rights-democracy-and-human-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"HPNLU | International Conference on Human Rights, Democracy and Human Dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Himachal Pradesh National Law University-Shimla\u00a0And\u00a0Grand Academic Portal-India organise International Conference on HUMAN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN DIGNITY: 70 YEARS OF UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS\u00a0November 9th and 10th, 2019<\/p>\n

Concept Note\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Human rights are intimately related to the notion of human dignity. Both notions are connected in such a way that one cannot be understood without the other. The importance of human rights and the requirement to respect everyone\u2018s rights is based on the notion of human dignity, In that sense, human dignity is considered to be the foundation of human rights, This notion advocates of human rights and different social movements resort to human dignity in older to justify their claims and their\u00a0actions.<\/p>\n

Human rights are often defined as entitlements that human beings possess just by virtue of their inherent dignity. This\u00a0conceptual link between human rights and inherent dignity is as popular as it is unhelpfuL It is often argued that\u00a0internationally recognised human rights are common to all cultural traditions and adaptable to a great variety of social\u00a0structures and political regimes Such arguments confuse human rights with human dignity All societies possess conceptions\u00a0of human dignity, but the conception of human dignity underlying international hUman rights standards requires a particular type of “liberal” regime.<\/p>\n

For decades the global debate over human rights has been a dialogue of the deaf. This interminable argument pits advocates of civil and political rights against proponents of economic and social rights. The former take the classic liberal position that individual freedom is the foundation of liberty and, accordingly, that the only fundamental rights are “negative’ ones that constrain state power.<\/p>\n

This longstanding debate dates from the founding of the United Nations at the end ofWorld War II. Following the horrors of fascism and especially the Holocaust] all UN member states were committed to the cause of \u201chuman rights.” As the debate was more about the content of such rights, the answer, as it emerged in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), was a little bit of everything. On 10 December 1948 the GeneralAssembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicise the text of the Declaration and “to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories” The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the cornerstone for modern day human rights within the framework of the United Nations<\/p>\n

This international conference aims at discussing the following questions in a larger perspective of the Human Rights and human Dignity:<\/p>\n