Scholars started classifying human rights under “three generations.” The first generation consists of civil and political rights. The second generation consists of economic, social and cultural rights. The emphasis in both has been on the individual’s rights. t. However, in the 1970s, a “third generation” rights emerged. In contrast to
the individual’s rights (i.e., the first two generations rights), these are collective or group rights such as the right to development, right to healthy human environment, right to peace, and right to self-determination.