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The subject of human rights is the major theme in the development of modern world. Since the adoption of 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the protection of human rights worldwide has assumed prime importance. Though the idea of human rights is not new, the Declaration and other international covenants have been landmarks in the norm building process of human rights. The nation states have been cajoled lo adopl international stan. dards of human rights protection. Over the years the contents of human rights have been witnessing incessani transformation. Not only is there an intense debate on the reality of protection of first generation human rights, increasing demands on the need of protecting second generation and third generation human rights are also being made. Theoretical contentions apart, these debates have lended to inluse new blood in the veins of human rights.
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