section 3 - 3B - Global governance Flashcards
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United Nations efforts to promote and protect
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- UN at core of human rights
- Reaffirm faith in human rights in dignity of a persons worth = equality
- Human rights council & human rights treaty bodies work backing international bill of rights
- The security council deals with HR violations
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NGO’s efforts to promote and protect
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- Zones of conflict work ‘on the ground’
- monitoring & providing warnings of violence modification of social norms
- improved sanitation, medicines and implements children and women rights
3
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treaties and laws
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- Formal written agreements between countries = binding in international and national law
- Drawn up by UN
Ex - convention the rights of child
4
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global governance within human rights
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intervention by the global community, attempting to regulate issues: human rights violations
5
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strategies for global governance of human rights
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- change or modernise norms
- NGOs, private organisations and human rights activists
- Creation and application of international and national laws
- strengthen rule of law
- creates or conventions
- UN peacekeeping
- intervention
6
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how are human rights promoted and protected
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put in place by organisations at:
- supranational scale: UN
- regional scale: OSCE, ASEAN
- national Govs and NGOs