UDHR drafters wanted economic deprivation visible, a path NGOs later abandoned

Evidence

In framing their human rights agenda as apolitical, and without implications for economic arrangements, NGOs such as Amnesty International sought to avoid the violent political conflicts between rival economic and political visions that marked Allende’s rule. But, in accepting the dichotomy between violent politics and pacific civil society, they further discredited political challenges to the inequalities and impersonal domination of market society. The human rights politics consolidated in Chile followed only one of the paths laid down decades earlier by the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), who also sought to render visible the heavy costs of economic deprivation and the compulsion exerted by hunger and want. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 311

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which passages of the UDHR — and which drafters — explicitly foregrounded economic deprivation and the compulsion of hunger? Worth chasing the primary source.
• XREF: connects to: The Great Depression and socialist threat drove inclusion of social rights in the UDHR — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 150; The UDHR’s flexible social rights language proved compatible with neoliberal poverty management — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 64; Modern human rights NGOs narrowed their agenda to civil liberties under neoliberal ascendancy — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 148 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The Great Depression and socialist threat drove inclusion of social rights in the UDHR #corroborates (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 150
• The UDHR’s flexible social rights language proved compatible with neoliberal poverty management #contradicts (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 64
• Modern human rights NGOs narrowed their agenda to civil liberties under neoliberal ascendancy #exemplifies (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 148
• The UDHR’s social and economic rights were designed to pacify, not radicalize #contradicts (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 180