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Who proposed the classification of human rights into three 'generations' linked to liberty, equality and fraternity?

  1. Johan Galtung
  2. John Locke
  3. Karel Vasak
  4. Immanuel Kant

Answer

C. Karel Vasak

Solution

Czech jurist Karel Vasak proposed the three generations in 1977.

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