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Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions:
Human rights have come to be classified into three types. The first type is political rights such as freedom of speech and assembly. The second type is economic and social rights. The third type is the rights of calonised people or ethnic and indigenous minorities . While there is broad agreement on this classification there is no agreement on which set of rights should be considered as universalhuman rights, nor what the international community should do when rights are being violated."
(i) Mention any two types of human rights.
(ii) Elucidate some incidents due to which countries questioned the role of UN and demanded for human rights at the international level.

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(i) The two types of human rights are
Political rights such as freedom of speech and assembly.
economic and social rights
(ii) Since the 1990s, developments such as Iraq.s invasion of Kuwait, the genocide in Rwanda, and the Indonesian military.s killing of people in East Timor have led to a debate on whether or not the UN should intervene to stop human rights abuses. There are those who argue that the UN Charter empowers the international community to take up arms in defence of lhuman righte. Others argue that the national interests of the powerful states will determine which instances of human rights violations the UN will act upon.
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