POLS 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: United Nations General Assembly, Humanitarian Intervention, Brundtland Commission
23 Mar 2017
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Natural law:like laws of physics, something for humans to discover. Humans posses basic rights: life, liberty, possession of property, freedom of speech. Function of government is to protect the aforesaid rights. Article 3 of the rights of man and of the citizen. Expansion of interest in human rights within the international system after world war ii. Universal declaration of human rights (un 1948) Article 29 used as justification for postcolonial repression. Thinking of security in broader nonmilitary terms. Human security challenges state-centric idea of security by focusing on individuals. 1994 human development report bases for human security highlighted economic, food, health, environmental, personal, community, and political security. Centrality to human rights of the 1948 universal declaration of human rights by the un. Un dominated by the west in 1948 and the 1948 declaration represents this. Brundtland commission (1987): connection between environmental degradation and security.
