HRTS 2115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Living Wage, Decolonization, Atlantic Charter

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: University of Iowa Center for Human Rights
• Course: HRTS 2115
• Professor: Jo Butterfield and Amy Weismann

Document Summary

Seen in the aftermath of wwi, really after wwii. The idea that as a group of people, as a global community, and in solidarity as a people we hold rights collectively, not just as individuals, is tied to early ideas about social, economic, and cultural well-being. Udhr article 28: everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this declaration can be fully realized. Emerge throughout the postwar era (peace movements, decolonization struggles, post- colonial development initiatives, and rising environmentalism) Post cold war solidification of the idea in the context of globalization interdependent and interconnected to one another. The right to (national) self-determination is distinct from 3rd gen right right of national minorities or indigenous populations to protection and self-determination. National self-determination - norms pertaining to the self-determination of peoples (for example, to their political status and their economic, social, and cultural development)