LHR paradigm pt. 2

Question 1

Define human rights

Answer 1

ights that are guaranteed by law

Question 2

Define autochthonous

Answer 2

People that live on a land and were there beforecolonization/migration. Not indigenous but there a long time

Question 3

Define indigenous

Answer 3

those that have alwayss been on the land

Question 4

What ARE human rights?

Answer 4

Locke’s idea that “every human being has certain rights which derive from their nature and not from their government or its laws”

Question 5

Define divine rights

Answer 5

monarchs believed they had a right to rule as they were the direct link between heaven and the rest of the population

Question 6

Define ‘counter-position’

Answer 6

HRs made in a political process, aimed to challenge existing law and legal authority

Question 7

Normative frameworks

Answer 7

• Peace of Westphalia 1649
• National sovereignty (19th c)
• Nationalities principles (early 20th c)
• National self-determination (post WWI)
• Protection of human rights (post WWII)
• Protection of minorities post Cold War

Question 8

Issues for diversity management 1

Answer 8

1. Achieving and maintaining security

2. Ensuring good & democratic governance

Question 9

Issues for diversity management 2

Answer 9

1. Institutional arrangements

2. International guarantees

Question 10

Human rights instruments

Answer 10

1. Charter of the United Nations (1945)
2. UDHR - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
3. ICERD - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965)
4. CCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
5. CESCR - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
6. CRC - Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
7. MINORI - Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (1992)
8. CRPD - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2007)
9. UNDRIP - Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007)

Question 11

Define the 3 types of rights

Answer 11

1. civil and political
2. social, cultural, and economical
3. solidarity rights

Question 12

Define ratification

Answer 12

law taken into domestic law. E.g. European law that is now a part of UK law

Question 13

Define accession

Answer 13

agreement in existence and you’re signing on to it

Question 14

Define national minorities

Answer 14

A body or group of people that make up less than 50% of the population. Have nation status

Question 15

Define Paris Peace Conference 1919

Answer 15

Redrawing state boundaries to accord with the state-determination principle