Area of Study 3D: Buddhism - Section 4: Equality — Edexcel GCSE Religious Studies B

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1. 4.1 Buddhist teaching on human rights: Buddhist teachings and responses to the nature and purpose of human rights; why Buddhists might support human rights as important, including reference to upekkha and the Declaration of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists: Towards A Buddhist Culture of Non-Violence and Human Rights (May 1998) ; divergent Buddhist responses to the need for and application of individual human rights, including the support offered by situation ethics; the problems human rights might cause for Buddhists; non-religious (including atheist and Humanist) arguments about human rights and Buddhist responses to them.