Short texts about human rights?

Hello

I am currently taking a course about human rights in an educational context. I was wondering if any of you knew of texts or articles that you could recommend me, perhaps something about: how can we teach others/children about human rights, should we do it, what things are problematic about human rights in general or something along those lines (or just texts about human rights that you think are interesting).

I'm a teacher and I don't have any serious philosophical foundation to read from, but I consider myself generally curious. So far my teacher has quoted Hannah Arendt a couple of times, but I remember trying to read an Arendt text about politics (and freedom?) previously in another course and finding it very difficult to understand, if that says anything about my reading comprehension.

Thanks in advance

Posted Feb 29, 2020, 5:53 PM UTC

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xunkuangConfucianism, Phil of Religion•
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MrTiny5•

Maybe try Anarchical Fallacies by Jeremy Bentham? It's a critique of the declaration of pre-social (natural) rights. Very interesting.

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