Module 3

Question 1

What are 3rd generation rights?

Answer 1

• rights impacting communities/groups
• emphasizes collective rights
• may be previously enshrined but now reframed on a larger scale
• also called solidarity rights

Question 2

What was the context for 3rd gen rights?

Answer 2

• decolonization
• globalization
• capitalism
• imperialism

Question 3

What are some examples of solidarity rights?

Answer 3

• self determination/sovereignty
• economic development
• healthy environment
• natural resources

Question 4

How does the “declaration of independence of the democratic republic of Vietnam” fall under sovereignty and solidarity?

Answer 4

Sovereignty: from france and japan
Solidarity: peace, education, expression

Question 5

What is colonialism?

Answer 5

• territorial conquest/occupation/control of one country by another
• often involved large scale settlement leading to inequality and exploitation

Question 6

What is imperialism?

Answer 6

• economic system where wealthy states control other societies
• long distance ties

Question 7

What are some examples of global capitalism consolidation?

Answer 7

• Monroe Doctrine 1823 (opposed Eu expansion in South America)
• Atlantic Charter 1941 (self-determination of colonies post-war)
• cold war and non-alignment countries

Question 8

Liberal Perspectives post WW1

Answer 8

• Woodrow Wilson “equality of rights”
• CP rights embedded in liberal democracy
• Global capitalism is the key to freedom
• LoN est

Question 9

Socialist Perspective post WW1

Answer 9

• Bolshevik revolution
• rights internationalist
• based in class struggle, SE rights for workers

Question 10

Why did the League fail?

Answer 10

• America did not join due to autonomy policies and lack of support, despite being founded on Wilsons 14pts
• failed because it did not stop WW2

Question 11

What are nations?

Answer 11

• A people who inhabit a defined territory and are governed by a single political and legal system
• “traditional” if based on culture
• “modern” if not based on culture

Question 12

Rosa Luxembourg’s perspective

Answer 12

• Cautioned against the rise of ethnic nationalism led by elites from the standpoint of economic materialism
• Cannot assume economic independence from political independence

Question 13

What was the ‘storm’?

Answer 13

• Over 3 dozen new countries formed in Asia and Africa between 1945-1970
• Cold war galvanized some struggles, stalled others
• outcomes varied from liberal to socialist to non-alignment

Question 14

What is non-alignment?

Answer 14

• based on human rights, non-aggression and non-intervention
• protect independence and resist colonialism
• yugoslavia, egypt, india, indonessia, ghana

Question 15

What were the raging 60s?

Answer 15

• decolonial solidarity from Europe and North America
• decolonial scholars became widely read
• Violent responses or involvement galvanized radicalism in North America

Question 16

Examples of self-determination

Answer 16

• Un covenant 1966 - “All peoples have the right of self determination”
• Partition in India - 800k deaths, “she (India) must be free and independent” Gandhi
• Vietnamese revolt against Fr took 9yrs declared in 1965
• 1950s African colonies became liabilities (except Algeria)
• Algeria freed after 8yr war in 1962

Question 17

What is Zionism?

Answer 17

• Idea originated by Herzl who established the need for a Jewish state
• quest for “self-determination”, chose Palestine due to ‘emptiness’
• Palestine had 700k inhabitants

Question 18

Balfour Declaration

Answer 18

• 1917
• “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine”

Question 19

Palestine’s encounters with colonialism

Answer 19

• 400 years of Ottoman rule
• WW1 led to the crumbling of the Ottoman Empire, GB started occupying then Greater Syria
• 1923 Gb had control
• Jewish militias took control, Israel formed by UN in 1948
• 1967 Israel expands into West Bank and Gaza

Question 20

What is the Nakba?

Answer 20

• Catastrophe, continuous

Question 21

Current perspectives

Answer 21

• ICJ has found plausible evidence for genocide
• “mutual acceptance can only be based on complete equality of rights” Khalidi

Question 22

What is TIPNIS issue?

Answer 22

• Highway the Bolivian state is trying to build on indigenous Amazonian lowlands
• Government did not consult indigenous population
• Not agricultural land, rather communities that live off the land
• project cancelled but deforestation persists

Question 23

What rights are being claimed by the Bolivian State?

Answer 23

• right to develop by harvesting cocoa beans and implementing the highway

Question 24

What rights are being claimed by the TIPNIS?

Answer 24

• Sovereignty is embedded in the constitution (‘mother earth’ rights) and want a reinforcement of that
• right to the environment

Question 25

What is the TIPNIS paradox?

Answer 25

the rights are at odds with each other

Question 26

What is the ILO 169

Answer 26

• Established rights for indigenous people as a specific group entitled to specific rights
• culture, education, territory, consultation on resources

Question 27

What is UNDRIP 2008

Answer 27

• Recognizes self-determination over lands and resources
• recognizes consent in conjunction with consultation