POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Linnean Society Of London, Soft Law, United Nations General Assembly
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Three historical trends that supported international human rights: democratization i governments increasingly accountable to their own people. Domestic institutions of free speech, free press, free elections: accountability in international law. Trend to submit to monitoring and reporting in other domains, such as arms control, the law of war, trade relations, etc. Growing norm of peer accountability : growth of international civil society. Rapid increase in number and range of ngos worldwide. Udhr, a few examples: everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person (art. 3: no one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms (art. 4: no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (art. 5: no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile (art. 16: everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others (art.
