ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the suggestion that group rights might in certain circumstances count as human rights. It is often now argued that the original list of human rights contained in the Universal Declaration was too restrictive, and needs to be expanded in various ways, including the recognition of certain collective or group rights. There are at least two problems with the idea of group rights that are claimed as citizenship rights, but not by appeal to equality. One is the problem of indeterminacy - of establishing what it is precisely that the group in question has a right to. The second problem is one of legitimation. It is essential to the idea of citizenship that the citizen body as a whole should be able to come to an agreement about what is to be regarded as a right of citizenship and what is not.
