The Generations of Human Rights

The Generations of Human Rights

To speak of successive generations of human rights is, of course to use a metaphor, and metaphors are misleading as well as illuminating. This author believes that a new generation is not a new species; the offspring of any species are of the same natural kind as their parents. She concludes that the generational categories in rights thought serve to emphasize an important factor that human rights are in a constant process of developing as the world changes.