ANTH 1000 Lecture 6: [TYPED] ANTH 1000 Cornell Notes from Guest Speaker Dr. Mukherjee's Presentation, Partners In Health
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Anth 1000 lecture 6 - guest speaker presentation. The universal declaration of human rights - a response to the attempted genocide of the jewish people about 70 years ago. Social movements and struggles are the only thing that change the human paradigm. Before, what a government did to its own people was the business of their own sovereignty. There is something viscerally wrong about starving other people. In response, the universal declaration of human rights stated: governments are responsible for respecting, protecting, and ful lling their people"s human rights. The people have the right to demand that the government protect their rights. This disagreement over which covenant is more important was partially due to the tensions from the cold war. If we google human rights , the rights voted by the west would appear in the search results rst, due to our society/government"s views. Africa is the richest continent, yet so many africans live in poverty-stricken conditions.
