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Re:Clean environment could become U.N. human right by shrikant on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:42AM (#28773072)
> It's the fact that opening up human rights to "new" rights sets a precedent.

Does this mean no new human right can ever be established? And by extension, that the set of human rights currently in the UDHR are "complete"?

(I don't have a strong opinion yet, just found this framing curious...)

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Re:Clean environment could become U.N. human right by a_diplomat on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:39AM (#28773706)
It doesn't mean that they can never be established, it just means that in the current international political climate, there is very little interest from democratic states to open it up, since the consequences could be so vast. If the world was nicer and everyone were friends it would be easy.
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