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The force of a claim for a human right would indeed be seriously undermined if it were possible to show that it is unlikely to survive open public sc… - Amartya Sen
" "The force of a claim for a human right would indeed be seriously undermined if it were possible to show that it is unlikely to survive open public scrutiny. However, contrary to a commonly offered reason for scepticism and rejection of the idea of human rights, the case for it cannot be discarded simply by pointing to the fact – a much-invoked fact – that in repressive regimes across the globe, which do not allow open public discussion, or do not permit free access to information about the world outside the country, many of these human rights do not acquire serious public standing.
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About Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen (born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for economics.
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অমর্ত্য সেন
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Amartya Kumar Sen
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Professor Amartya Kumar Sen
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