quiz 2 Flashcards
“___ are the set of prerogatives based on human dignity, whose effective realization is indispensable for the integral development of the person. This set of prerogatives is established within the national legal order, in our Political Constitution, international treaties and laws.”
Human Rights
____ is also one of the legal freedoms that must be ensured and monitored.
The freedom to choose the ways to realize our full human development
it was not until the ___ that a modern era began in which the rights to freedom and equality were recognized as inalienable and undeniable rights of all people
18th century
phrase that emerged during the French Revolution
“Liberty, equality and fraternity”
When was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted?
it was adopted in December 10th, 1948 by the United Nations
The first article of this declaration states that:
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and, endowed as they are with reason and conscience, should behave towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood”.
Recall that the State violates human rights in three ways:
- By action, when it performs an action that goes beyond our human rights.
- By omission, when it does not do what it is supposed to do, thus violating our human rights.
- By tolerance, when we tolerate that someone else harms us and overrides our rights and freedoms.
non-discrimination based on gender in Mexico (5 documents)
- Magna Carta
- sections 1 and 4 of the Constitution
- Ley General de Igualdad entre Mujeres y Hombres
- Ley General de Acceso de las Mujeres a una Vida Libre de Violencia
- Ley Federal para Prevenir y Eliminar la Discriminación,
Why did the Mexican government open a memorial in 2011?
To apologize for the femicides in Ciudad Juarez, they also payed $383,000 dollars to the victims’ families.
Roles and responsibilities for municipal, state and federal government authorities in Mexico as said in the Constitution
promote, respect, protect and guarantee human rights
Shue, duties for the government
Non-deprivation, Privacy Protection, Helping those deprived of basic goods
Eide, duties for the government(4)
Respect, protect, satisfy, provide
Van Hoof, duties for the government
Respect, protect, insuring, promote
Steiner y Alston, duties for the government
Respect, protect/prevent, create institutional machinery, provide goods and services, promote
DESC Committee, duties for the government
Respect, protect, comply, satisfy, provide, promote
Human rights Committee, duties for the government
Respect, protect, ensuring and adopting measures, insuring, promote
Inter-American Court of Human Rights, duties for the government
Respect, protect, ensuring and adopting measures, promote, establishing institutions and investigating, sanctioning and redressing
Because they are the basis of legal equality and are distinguished from economic rights.
Universal
Because among human rights, some depend on others because they establish reciprocal relationships between them, where the annulment of one human right can have repercussions on the annulment of other human rights, and also human rights are self-limiting insofar as some rights serve as a limit to other rights.
Interdependent
It entails that all human rights have an inseparable character because they are part of people and derive from the dignity of each one of them.
Indivisible
It entails that since they are already included in Mexico’s political constitution, they cannot be annulled, ignored or expelled; furthermore, they do not admit regression, i.e., there will always be more human rights, not less.
Progressive
the third paragraph of section 1 of the Mexican Constitution establishes as obligations of the State to ___
prevent, investigate, punish and redress human rights violations
Men and women are not 100% equal, nor can they be, but the ___ must be applied
ethical principle of equality
It is a normative ethical principle that places us, for the good of all people and society as a whole, as human beings with equal value based on the very life and human dignity that shapes us
Equality
the first woman doctor to perform a heart transplant in Mexico in August 2017
Dr. María del Sol García Ortegón
___ means internalizing the mandates that are held, the power they tend to exercise and unlearning the violent behaviors that even generate various problems for men themselves
New masculinity