POLI 100 Lecture 20: Human Rights
8 Apr 2017
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Ideally political and legal should match up, but often they do not. Most basic fundamental rights held by all people. Rights for the protection and maintenance of the dignity and security of people and that create the conditions for human beings to flourish. Specify the minimum conditions for human dignity and tolerable existence. Udhr adopted by the united nations general assembly december 10, 1948 after. Catalogue of human rights held by all people everywhere. Normative and prescriptive document for how we ought to behave. Not necessary consistent with the actual practices and views of state. Assumes: the world is a human family, rights are the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace, and that everyone has a duty to teach, educate and promotes human rights. Tells us how states, as well as, humans should act. Interesting fact: the primary drafter of the udhr was canadian john peters.
