PEACEST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Human Rights Watch, Global Rights, A Human Right
6 Dec 2016
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Un international contest for logo of human rights this one selected. Room for human flourishment (looking to move toward it in a positive sense) Pp achieved by focusing on human rights, health, . How do we determine what"s in the list: education, equality, health care, right to body, there are bigger rights made of smaller rights (ex. Religion, philosophy, enlightenment liberalism, anti-slavery movement, post-second. Human rights is not a 20th century construct, the language of human rights. Human rights is a right: for someone to be right, the other has to be obliged, government not to torture, force, government has to respect. Human rights are universal: even if people aren"t aware that they have them, in the declaration of human rights. Countries have their own charter of rights. Canada 1867 canadian charter of rights and freedoms (specific to the nation) There is an ontario charter as well.
