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Hannah Arendt critiqued the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in her essay "The Right to Have Rights." She argued that 1) the UDHR assumes an abstract conception of human beings without political communities to guarantee rights, 2) human rights lose meaning when individuals lose their political context such as citizenship, and 3) the "right to have rights" or right to belong to a political community should be recognized as a precondition for protecting other human rights. Her critique examines the parad

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Rogelio Mendoza

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