A Further Dimension to the Interdependence and Indivisibility of Human Rights?: Recent Developments Concerning the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Helen Quane
unpublished
The term "intersupport" is also used in a similar sense. Both terms convey the same meaning, namely, that "the effective implementation of one family of rights helps with the implementation of some or all of the others. . . . Mutual support exists, in varying degrees of strength, between all of the families of rights." JAMES W. NICKEL, MAKING SENSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS 104 (2d ed. 2007). 5. See, for example, one of earliest references to the concept where the U.N. General Assembly simply asserted
more » ... "interdependence" of human rights without elaborating on it other than to comment that "when deprived of economic, social and cultural rights, man does not represent the human person whom the Universal Declaration regards as the idea of the free man." Preparation of Two Drafts International Covenants on Human Rights, preamble, ¶ 2, G.A. Res. 543 (VI) (Feb. 5, 1952), available at http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/6/ares6.htm [hereinafter G.A. Res. 543 (VI)]. The assertion was made in the context of the General Assembly having to abandon its original proposal to transform the principles contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into a single International Human Rights Covenant due to different perceptions of the nature and significance of difference categories of human rights among Western, socialist and developing States.
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