SOC210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Netflix, Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, In Vitro Fertilisation
14 Apr 2016
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Soc 203: january 13, 2016 history of rights, week 2. Rehtaeh parsons case: killed herself ater photo circulated, ex-bf posted it online, appropriateness of charging teens with creaing child pornography; as they were essenially youths themselves. Law never intended to be used in that way, should not support use of charges: power the law has over human rights. Changed the debate towards the situaion"s legal issues. There are ahistorical claims in the scholarship on human rights. Right = human right early rights" texts are heavily inluenced by religions: religious intolerance has a very long and commonplace history, problem with this associaion. In the catholic church during the late 18 th century rejected the idea of rights for man. Would not have considered these early beliefs as human rights . Contradicion between jeferson and his owning of slaves. No true origin to the history of human rights. Moments in history shock and unsetle people in the community.
