ARTS1811 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sanctity Of Life, Forced Pregnancy, Compulsory Sterilization
11 Nov 2018
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Overall structure of the international human rights system. Things that individuals could not do to one another. been done for them. Have grown in prestige and significance since wwii: after wwii, human rights had much less of an impact on ways of talking about power and justice than they do now. Principle of anti-discrimination: sex and gender in the questions of rights: central to human rights is universality (how they apply to everyone) + principle of anti- discrimination, 17th century discrimination was a good thing. Discrimination against women (cedaw), the convention of 1979, which binds states, mandates that states should eliminate discrimination against women that impairs their human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, civil, cultural or any other field. A particular body of law applies in conflict which is known as the law of war/law of armed conflict/international humanitarian law (ihl) Bring consistency, anti- discrimination across fields of war and peace.
