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Introduction Flashcards

Core principles and ideas

1
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First major manifestation of international human rights?

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Universal Declaration on Human Rights 1948 (UDHR)

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Why did the UDHR 1948 come about?

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Response to atrocities of WWII, particularly in light of the fact that after WWI nothing happened because it was assumed it would never happen again

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What are international human rights on the most basic level?

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  • > Provision of explicit legal protection for fundamental rights of all humans
  • > Rights that are held by the simple virtue of being a human
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HOFFMAN QUOTE

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Human rights are the ‘doxa of our time’

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Who said human rights are the ‘doxa of our time’

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HOFFMAN

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HENKIN QUOTE

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‘Human rights are the idea of our time, the only political-moral idea that has received universal acceptance’

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Who said: ‘Human rights are the idea of our time, the only political-moral idea that has received universal acceptance’

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HENKIN

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SEN QUOTE

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‘Rhetoric of human rights is omnipresent in the contemporary time’

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Who said: ‘rhetoric of human rights is omnipresent in the contemporary time’

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SEN

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How did RAZ describe the basic idea of human rights?

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  • > As ‘natural’ rights
  • > From either a deity or reason
  • > Held by the very fact of being human
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How did HOFFMAN and DEMBOUR describe the basic idea of human rights?

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Historically contingent and transient rules that a given community agrees to be bound to

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How did BAXI and MUTA more cynically describe the basic idea of human rights?

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An apologia for Western imperialism and global capitalism

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The two parts to understanding human rights according to PERRY?

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1) Every human being is sacred
2) Because of this, there are certain things that ought not to be done to human beings and certain things that ought to be done to human beings

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Where else is PERRY’s view mirrored?

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The preamble to the UDHR 1948

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Preamble to UDHR 1948

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  • Recognition of the inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all humans is foundation of freedom, justice and peace
  • Contempt for human rights has resulted in barbarous acts that outraged conscience of mankind
  • Advent of a world in which all shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration
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16
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What is the basis for the modern human rights regime?

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UDHR

-> Not legally binding

17
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How did the UDHR 1948 signal a shift in international law?

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  • > Previously it was treaties etc. between individual countries that determined relationships
  • > UDHR gave rights directly to citizens to enforce against anyone, including their own state = autonomy of the individual
18
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One of the key tensions in modern human rights law?

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Trying to square the primacy of the universal rights of the individual VS the sovereignty of a nation state

19
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General rule in relation to rights vs sovereignty?

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State sovereignty will be respected

20
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When will state sovereignty be ignored?

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  • > Generally on a cynical basis
  • > Advancement of geopolitical interests rather than genuine human rights concerns
  • > Iraq, Afghanistan etc
21
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How was UDHR translated into legally binding treaties?

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ICCPR

ICECSR both 1966

22
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Another fundamental tension the was highlighted by introduction of ICCPR and ICECSR 1966?

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  • > Divide between civil and political rights VS economic, cultural and social rights
  • > Negative v Positive
23
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Why is there a divide between civil/political and socio-economic rights?

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  • > Long standing philosophical differences cemented by the cold war
  • > Although both sets are considered binding and indivisible, reality is very different
24
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How does the divide between socio-economic rights and civil political rights relate to cultural relativism?

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Are human rights simply a continuation of colonisation by other means, a way of imposing Euro-centric morality on an infinitely complex world?

25
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What is the arguably biggest challenge facing human rights today?

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Chasm of promise vs reality

26
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What does TEEPLE say about the gulf between what human rights promises and what actually happens?

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‘In the world today, the principles of most human rights appear to be increasingly transgressed, subordinated, or usurped. In general human rights seem to be more in decline than ascendant’

27
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Who said that there is little reason to believe human rights are any more secure now than they were in 1945?

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PERRY

28
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‘By failing to interrogate and wrestle with economic and political philosophies and systems, the human rights movement indirectly sanctions capitalism and free markets’.

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MUTA

29
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How can the human rights movement be said to indirectly sanction capitalism and free markets?

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Fails to examine or challenge economic or political philosophies, particularly Western ones

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