Bill Bowring’s discussion of human rights includes the following:
• There is a clear conflict between the Western conception of rights as liberal conceptions of human rights, and social justice.
• In the United States individual rights, especially freedom of expression and property rights, will always trump social policy considerations.
• Everyone is entitled, as a right of citizenship, to be able to meet their basic needs for income, shelter and other necessities.
• The Human Rights Act 1998 does not protect the full range of rights contained in the UN Declaration on Human Rights.
• There is nothing inherent in social and economic rights that prevent judicial determination of their content.
• There is a deep antipathy in the United Kingdom to collective or group rights.
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