1. LSJ/SIS 322: HUMAN RIGHTS IN LATIN AMERICA COURSE WORKSPACE
Summer 2010
Alejandro Cerón

2. Class outline Oral presentation - guidelines Human rights governance
Transnational networks
Readings for last class: main useful ideas
Film (trying to show more of the context)
“May justice be done” (Argentina) (start at 5:45!!)
Discussion
4 questions from last class
Readings for last class
Film

3. Oral presentation - guidelines
10 minute presentation (no less than 7 min.)
Two options:
1. Describe your posts and explain what you learned from them.
2. What lessons did you learn from the class (combination of readings, students, films, etc.)
Lessons can include new questions you ask about HR in Latin America
Graded as credit/no credit (participation grade) based on presenting orally, effective use of time, and focus on lessons learned
No points for using any PPT or other visual aid, but you can use them

4. Human rights governance
When human rights violations occur, where can you go to demand justice?
General overview
Inter-American System
National Human Rights Institutions
Transnational networks
Non-governmental organizations
Governments

5. Transnational networks
Local NGOs (or similar)
Networks of NGOs
International NGOs
Funding agencies
Foreign Governments (mainly U.S. and E.U.)
Legislature
Advocacy groups
International Organizations
U.N. agencies
World Bank
Corporations?

6. Number of HR organizations in selected countries (Cardenas 2010)

7. HR sanctions by the U.S. in Latin America: a foreign policy tool
1960s-1970s
1980s
1990s
Cuba (1960-)
Chile (1975)
Uruguay ( )
Paraguay ( )
Argentina ( )
Guatemala (1977-)
El Salvador ( )
Brazil ( )
Bolivia ( )
El Salvador ( )
Nicaragua ( )
Haiti ( )
Panama ( )
El Salvador ( )
Nicaragua ( )
Peru ( )
Colombia ( )
Paraguay (1996)

8. Articles for last class
Kennedy: 10 worries about HR movement
Charlesworth: response (not addressing the issues)
More than 100 experts question HRW’s Venezuela report
HRW responds to criticism of Venezuela report
My intention:
HR becomes concrete through its use by political actors
HR can be contradictory
Should human rights be the “gold standard”

9. Think during the film…
Relation: social exclusion, social justice and human rights
Women’s sexual & reproductive rights. What it would take?
Politics and human rights (denunciations, reports, etcetera)
If democratic institutions are weak, what is the role of the economy, politics and redistribution in highly inequitable societies?
Can you come up with scenarios where human rights goals can be at odds with social justice goals?