SOSC 2351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Immanence, Individual And Group Rights

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2351
• Professor: Tanja Juric

Document Summary

Human rights are the choices we all make everyday. Human rights- are rights held by all human beings by virtue of being human: they are universal and they are held equally by all people (regardless of race, gender, class, nationality etc. ) They are inalienable (cannot be surrendered/erased/taken away) Can also be moral, even if no law guarantees them. The holocaust made politicians and people realize something drastic needed to happen. At its first session, in 1946, the general assembly considered a draft declaration on. Fundamental human rights and freedoms: the drafting committee decided to prepare 2 documents, 1. Declaration, setting forth principles of human rights: principles of which law can be built, convention, defining specific rights and their limitations. 10 december 1948, the general assembly adopted the universal declaration of. Human rights as the first of these projects instruments. The international bill of human rights: finish .