Summary Of Deal Illusions By John Locke
Abstract
According to John Locke, human rights are innate rights that are naturally inherent in every human being and can not be contested. John Locke explains that human rights is a natural right of the human being as a gift or a gift directly from God. Declaration on Human Rights 1948 had contribution in formed the commitment to respect and uphold the human dignity among the nation-state, in order to avoid the catastrophe of war that can destroy human values. However, the issue of politicization of human rights brought by the third committee in general assembly of United Nations. James Peck stated in his book titled Deal Illusions - How the US Government Co-Opted Human Rights about US began to make human rights as an ideological weapon …show more content…
Everyone has the right to run their lives and what they want as long as it does not violate the norms and values that contained in society. These rights are very obliged to be respected, upheld and protected by the state, law and government. everyone has the same dignity so that there is no difference between one people to another even if they have different race, nationality, skin color, and etc. According to John Locke, human rights are innate rights that are naturally inherent in every human being and can not be contested. John Locke explains that human rights is a natural right of the human being as a gift or a gift directly from God . Rights to which every human being are interdependent, interrelated and can not be separated in any case …show more content…
Every year since 1976, the US State Department has published a very detailed report about worldwide condition of human rights (HAM). Lastly, in April 2011, consists of more than 2 million words, printed from the official website of the state, producing more than 7,000 pages of paper. This report covers 194 countries in the world except United States .
This issue raises question against US. wheter US is the only country that has perfect appraisal and record in term of human rights, both domestically nor international, where US not involved in war? Which conflict in such countries where US not intervene? If not, why is the American government felt entitled to examine the human rights practices of other countries? This report contains a lot of defects even in countries that rarely occurs to us in the context of human rights
According to John Locke, human rights are innate rights that are naturally inherent in every human being and can not be contested. John Locke explains that human rights is a natural right of the human being as a gift or a gift directly from God. Declaration on Human Rights 1948 had contribution in formed the commitment to respect and uphold the human dignity among the nation-state, in order to avoid the catastrophe of war that can destroy human values. However, the issue of politicization of human rights brought by the third committee in general assembly of United Nations. James Peck stated in his book titled Deal Illusions - How the US Government Co-Opted Human Rights about US began to make human rights as an ideological weapon …show more content…
Everyone has the right to run their lives and what they want as long as it does not violate the norms and values that contained in society. These rights are very obliged to be respected, upheld and protected by the state, law and government. everyone has the same dignity so that there is no difference between one people to another even if they have different race, nationality, skin color, and etc. According to John Locke, human rights are innate rights that are naturally inherent in every human being and can not be contested. John Locke explains that human rights is a natural right of the human being as a gift or a gift directly from God . Rights to which every human being are interdependent, interrelated and can not be separated in any case …show more content…
Every year since 1976, the US State Department has published a very detailed report about worldwide condition of human rights (HAM). Lastly, in April 2011, consists of more than 2 million words, printed from the official website of the state, producing more than 7,000 pages of paper. This report covers 194 countries in the world except United States .
This issue raises question against US. wheter US is the only country that has perfect appraisal and record in term of human rights, both domestically nor international, where US not involved in war? Which conflict in such countries where US not intervene? If not, why is the American government felt entitled to examine the human rights practices of other countries? This report contains a lot of defects even in countries that rarely occurs to us in the context of human rights