1. What Are Human Rights? Why Do We Study Them?
Day 3_Wednesday
What Are Human Rights? Why Do We Study Them?
Jeong-Woo Koo

2. What Are Human Rights?: Story of HRs

3. Your Thoughts?
Curious…
► How would you define human rights?
► Why do we need human rights?
► What do people need to live in dignity
(or living a life with dignity)?
► How about love? compassion?
Lovely parenting?

4. The Concept of Human Rights
The Working of Human Rights
► Rectitude: “the right thing to do”
► Entitlement: “someone having a right”
► A has a right to x with respect to B
► Who’s A? and Who’s B?

5. The Concept of Human Rights
In reality…several scenarios
a) Assertive exercise
b) Active respect
c) Objective enjoyment
Q) When are human rights put to use?
“In an ideal world, rights would remain not
only out of sight but out of mind as well”.

6. Special Features of Human Rights
Three characteristics
(1) Equal rights
(2) Inalienable rights
(3) Universal rights
Q) Don't you see anything controversial?

7. Legal Rights, Moral Rights, Citizenship
Are human rights legal rights or moral rights?
Legal Rights
Moral Rights
Q) How about citizenship rights?

8. What If Rights Are Actually Threatened?
How to seek remedies
What would be possible remedies you can resort to when your rights are denied at Sungkyunkwan University?

9. Blau’s ideas
►  People’s fundamental rights to development (Amartya Sen)
► Likewise, developmental rights for societies and nations
► That is, the rights of each person are connected to those of all the others, while developmental goals of persons are connected with those of societies and nations.
► “By linking the development rights of people with those of their societies and states, the human rights perspective reinforces values having to do with mutual responsibilities and obligations (Blau 2010: 23)”.
► These mutual responsibilities and obligations go against competitive individualism because it “delegitimizes selfish drives for personal power and wealth that undermine the well-being of others (Blau 2010: 23)”.

10. Blau’s Critique of Globalization and Market Forces and More… 1
►  Globalization and market forces are seen as responsible for threatening rights of the disadvantages and their chances to secure rights.
► Mutuality of regard, regard of others, rights of others are instrumental in conceptualizing human rights. .
► Human rights involve basic human aspirations and needs, not exclusively the individual’s civil, political, and material rights.
► The language of individual rights encourages people to consider “my rights,” “my house” “my money” “my property,” and “my family,” rather than “our community,” “our resources,” “our town,” and “our families. 

11. Lecture 5 List of human rights protected under international law
Non-discrimination
Life
Liberty and security of the person
Protection against slavery and servitude
Protection against torture
Legal personality
Equal protection of the law
Legal remedy
Protection against arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile
Access to independent and impartial tribunal
Presumption of innocence
Protection against ex post facto laws
Privacy, family, home and correspondence
Freedom of movement and residence
Nationality
Marry and found a family
Protection and assistance of families
Marriage only with free consent of spouses
Equal rights of men and women in marriage
Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
Freedom of opinion and expression
Freedom of the press
Freedom of assembly
Freedom of association
Participation in government
Social security
Work
No compulsory or forced labor
Just and favorable conditions of work
Trade unions
Rest, leisure and paid holidays
Adequate standard of living
Education
Participation in cultural life
Self-determination
Protection of and assistance to children
Freedom from hunger
Health
Asylum
40. Property
41. Compulsory primary education
42. Humane treatment when deprived of liberty
43. Protection against imprisonment for debt
44. Expulsion of aliens only by law
45. Prohibition of war propaganda and incitement to discrimination
46. Minority culture
47. No imprisonment for breach of civil obligations
48. Protection of children
49. Access to public service
50. Democracy
51. Participation in cultural and scientific life
52. Protection of intellectual property rights
53. International and social order for realizing rights
54. Political self-determination
55. Economic self-determination
56. Women’s rights
57. Prohibition of the death penalty
58. Prohibition of apartheid
Lecture 5

12. Consider the following examples

13. What about the case of Apple CEO?

14. List of Human Rights How far can it expand?
How far should the list of human rights be expanded? What kinds of rights can potentially be added to the currently available list of human rights?