|The Impact of Technology on Human Rights: Global Case-studies
(UNU, 1993, 322 pages)| |4. Human rights and technological
development: Eastern Europe and Poland| Poland, like other
countries of Eastern Europe, has now undertaken a substantial
reorientation of her approach to human rights. Citizens' rights,
subordinating individual human rights to collective and social
rights, and identifying increases in the satisfaction of the
fundamental needs of society with increases in the fulfilment of
human rights, are being replaced by liberally perceived human
rights, which place individual freedom above the interests of
the collectivity. This new approach to human rights has changed,
in a substantial way, the attitude of the societies of East
European countries towards technological development.
Traditional technologies collide with the new interpretation of
human rights, giving rise to sharp social protest. In view of
this, the necessity arises to bring about a profound
transformation in the field of technological