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Human Rights Flashcards

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Natural Law

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Natural law moral theory, the moral standards that govern human behavior are, in some sense, objectively derived from the nature of human beings and the nature of the world.

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Human rights

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Inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply for being human

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What is right?

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Rights are conditions and protections that cannot be breached or taken away by others, even by the government or the state

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Sources of Human Rights

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Religion
Political Philosophy
Political Revolution
Legal Philosophy 
Natural Law
Natural Rights
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What date was the UNDHR cr passed

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December 10, 1948

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What tragedy occurred for the creation of the UNDHR

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World War 2 -Holocaust

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How many articles are in the UNDHR

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30

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Name 8 rights in the undhr

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  • Freedom From Discrimination
  • Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of a person
  • No one shall be held in slavery
  • No one shall be subject to torture or cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment
  • Right to recognition,everyone as a person
  • Equal before the law
  • fair Trial
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Civil rights are :

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Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples’ physical and mental integrity, life, and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as race, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, color, age, political affiliation, ethnicity, religion, and disability;and individual rights such as privacy and the freedom of thought, speech, religion, press, assembly, and movement.

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Political Rights

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Political rights include natural justice (procedural fairness) in law, such as the rights of the accused, including the right to a fair trial; due process; the right to seek redress or a legal remedy; and rights of participation in civil society and politics such as freedom of association, the right to assemble, the right to petition, the right of self-defense, and the right to vote.

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Magna Carta

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1215 AD
No one can overrule an individual rights
-This phenomenon destroyed the ideology where poorer or disenfranchized didn’t have rights

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1628

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Petition of Rights created

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1689

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British Bill of Rights is created

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1776

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Declaration of Independence is created

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1915

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Mahatma Gandhi leads Indian protest “all people have rights”

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1600

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John Lock establishes the right to life liberty and Property

17
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What was the enlightenment

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in 1600, Enlightenment philosophers believed that rational thought could lead to human improvement and were the most legitimate mode of thinking. They saw the ability to reason as the most significant and valuable human capacity

18
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What document was created in 1776

The major quote?

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Declaration of Independence was created

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

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What is the league of Nations?
year?
Hq?

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1920
The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.

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1942

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World War 2

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1945

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UN created

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December 10, 1948

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UNDHR created

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What does the acronym CEDAW stand for?

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Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against women

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What was the name of the body that preceded the United Nations

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League of Nation (1920)

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What was the major catalyst or event for the formation of the United Nations?

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World War 2 Inclusive of the Holocaust

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What does the Acronym CAT stand for?

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Convention against Torture AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT

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What year was CAT adopted?

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December 9,,1975

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Why was CAT created?

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The Convention requires states to take effective measures to prevent torture in any territory under their jurisdiction and forbids states to transport people to any country where there is a reason to believe they will be tortured.

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What year was CEDAW created?

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1979

30
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Why was CEDAW created?

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is often described as an
international bill of rights for women to ensure elimination of all acts of discrimination
against women by persons, organizations or enterprises.

31
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State 3 sources of international law?

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International law is itself derived from three sources: (a) treaties or international
agreements; (b) international customary law; and (c) opinions and decisions of international
courts or tribunals

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What does the acronym CRC mean

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Committee on the rights of a child?

33
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What are human right treaty bodies?

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The human rights treaty bodies are committees of independent experts that
monitor implementation of the core international human rights treaties.

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What does the acronym CESCR mean ?

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Comittee on the Economic,Social and Cultural Rights

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Asides of treaty bodies what are some vodies dealing with the protection of human rights

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Charter-based bodies

Human Rights Council

Universal Periodic Review

Commission on Human Rights (replaced by the Human Rights Council)

Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council

Human Rights Council Complaint Procedure

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What year was CRC created?

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November 20,1989

37
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Why was the CRC created?

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The Convention on the Rights of the Child brings together the children’s human rights articulated in other international instruments. This Convention articulates the rights more completely and provides a set of guiding principles that fundamentally shapes the way in which we view children..

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  1. Explain how international custom becomes law?
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Four main methods are generally available for the implementation of international human rights instruments in domestic law:

Direct incorporation of rights recognised in the international instruments into a bill of rights in the national legal order;
Enactment of different legislative measures in the civil, criminal and administrative laws to give effect to the different rights recognised in human rights instruments;
Self-executing operation of international human rights instruments in the national legal order; and
Indirect incorporation as aids to interpret other law.

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