Human Rights for the Twenty-First Century

Authors

• Marcus Moore, Allard School of Law at the University of British ColumbiaFollow

Faculty Author Type

Current Faculty [Marcus Moore]

Published In

Constitutional Forum

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2025

Subjects

human rights, twenty first century

Abstract

In the twenty-first century, traditionally dominant conceptions of the scope of human rights are no longer adequate protection against the proliferation of threats in modern life. Waves of technological change from the Industrial Revolution to the Information Revolution have led to transformations in economy and society that require expanding the scope of human rights protection to include horizontal not just vertical effect and to establish positive not just negative freedom. A definitive shift to these updated conceptions is long overdue and is urgently necessary to meaningfully protect rights in the twenty-first century.

Citation Details

Marcus Moore "Human Rights for the Twenty-First Century" (2026).