International Human Rights: The Framework.

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September 18/2002

International Human Rights: The Framework

  1. Background
  2. Individual Human Rights (HR)
  1. Political/Civil rights
  2. Social rights
  3. Economic rights
  1. Collective Cultural Rights
  1. Ethno-cultural/Religious
  2. Collective rights of a “peoples”
  1. Categorical Rights

1) Background:

  • Most human rights have existed as ideas. They started a long time ago.
  • Right reasoning became secular natural law, ultimately the basis of international law.
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) = moral principles and subsequent documents passed to refine human rights.
  • Prior to WWII, human rights weren’t a focus of international concern. Human rights were treated as the exclusive jurisdiction of the country.
  • Human rights came about as atrocities surfaced to public knowledge from WWII.
  • Atrocities of WWII were systemic and extreme. It gave the international community reason to pursue international human rights.
  • Nuremburg today is the international war crimes tribunal.
  • Canada has a fairly active role in the tribunal.
  • Countries struggling with internal conflict oppose international human rights.
  • International Bill of Human Rights (IDHR) intended to end horrors like genocide.
  • Attempts to implement human rights:
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  • Covenant of women: attempt to address all women in the world. They perform two thirds of work, and only receive one tenths of world income
  • Children documents identify on the world level.
  • Nation state should create laws based on international human rights documents.
  • If nation state has human rights, everyone in the state has it.
  • Just because a law exists, doesn’t mean that it’s followed or equally accessible to everyone.

2) Individual Human Rights:

  • Rights that each of us should have because we’re human (without distinction). Principle is that we all have the ...

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