STAT 1051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Human Rights Watch, Legal Aid, Geopolitics

• School: GWU
• Department: Statistics
• Course: STAT 1051
• Professor: You Jiashen

Document Summary

Human rights: combination of social and political geographies. A willingness to improve human rights is now a condition for entering into a range of diverse arrangements with other states. I. e. human rights are now a precondition for admission to the eu. Us wouldn"t qualify for eu because we wouldn"t be able to due to many human rights issues (ex. Political geography has moved from geopolitics and global power to studies of identities, empowerment, resistance, mobilities, and differences - and the ways in which these are played out in geographical space. Not about becoming rulers of the state, but making space - inclusion in a society. Defense of social rights likely to be as important as political rights. Considered the international bill of human rights. Global standard for human rights - most accepted moral standard in the world. New way of thinking about international law and its impact on the individual. Not a static document; dozens of treaties, etc.