Political Science 3388E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights, Negative And Positive Rights, United Nations Economic And Social Council

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 3388E
• Professor: Joanna Quinn

Document Summary

All human beings have rights: because we are human beings. All human beings are born free and equal. Individuals in a community have rights, but not the community itself. Oppressors deny individuals their rights based on the characteristics of those people; based on ethnicity/religion/etc. Human rights are denied through the denial that an individual is human. "a human right is a justified claim on someone for something that is owed. : we are entitled and justified in claiming those rights, we have to claim them from somebody. Were thought to be a natural right: you were born with them. It was thought that you can lose your rights based on your actions; prisoners actually do still have rights. Modern theorists reject the idea that you lose your rights. Moral rights need not be codified but sometimes are. Moral rights do need to be written into a legal code/ concretized to have authority.