Answer» Correct Answer - Option 2 : Second generation
The correct answer is the second generation.
- Second-generation human rights
- Second-generation human rights are related to equality and began to be recognized by governments after World War II.
- They are fundamentally economic, social, and cultural in nature.
- It is related to the Eradication of all types of social discrimination.
- They guarantee different members of the citizenry equal conditions and treatment.
- Secondary rights would include a right to be employed in just and favorable condition, rights to food, housing and health care, as well as social security and unemployment benefits.
- Like first-generation rights, they were also covered by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and further embodied in Articles 22 to 28 of the Universal Declaration, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.
- The division of human rights into three generations was initially proposed in 1979 by the Czech jurist Karel Vasak at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
- He used the term at least as early as November 1977.
- Vasak's theories have primarily taken root in European law.
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