1. Global Politics
Human Rights

3. HUMAN RIGHTS Key Concepts: Justice Liberty Equality
“These components are found on various geographic levels, from the local to the global, and from the arguments surrounding cultural relativity to the debates about whether human rights should be universal.”

5. Human Rights Rights of the individual Rights of the collective
The struggle for human rights is always positive.
Often used for political purposes
The definition is continually undergoing change

7. Human Rights Key Questions
Are there more significant concepts that may be used to describe our current state of global politics and the interaction of people and power on various levels and for particular purposes?
Does the generality of the concept of human rights suffice to offer goals for humanity and a reasonable agenda in this era of rapid globalization and social change?
Who would be in charge of that agenda and what problems may it cause?
What are some alternatives?

9. Human Rights What are human rights?
rights held by individuals simply because they are human
rights are universal
do not have boundaries of sex, gender or nationality
claimed individually or in groups

11. Human Rights
Human rights are then those entitlements that are part of the existence of humans, and may divide these into two categories:
Positive Rights
Negative Rights

13. Human Rights Positive Rights:
Refer to rights that are protected by authority, both local and global, and include goods and services that allow people to survive, such as education, protection from harm, places to live and care.

15. Human Rights Negative Rights:
Refer to rights that do not require intervention by outside agency. These include the right to live, the absence of torture, community control of the community and the individuals who live within them and self-determination.

17. Human Rights
The distinction between positive & negative rights is largely circumstantial - based on access to resources and economic, political and social rights.
EXAMPLE:
The right to food is a positive right in East Los Angeles, where a lack of local resources means that food must be provided by outside forces. It is a negative right in the wheat fields of Kansas, where the abundant resources can only be taken away through external intervention.

19. Human Rights a brief history
The term “human rights” as applied to contemporary politics & society is a relatively recent term, coming into use in the 1940s.
United Nations: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948
Recent Examples:
Claims by indigenous peoples for their ancestral lands & language
Demands by many for livable housing & working conditions
Documented lack of medical services & drinkable water
Place of human rights in trade agreements

21. Human Rights
Who decides which rights are enforceable and which are not?
On what level (geographic and political) are human rights enforced and realized within societies, communities and ruling bodies?
Does the UDHR account for specific attempts at delegating human rights to specific populations?
What legislative processes are needed to enforce them?

23. Human Rights Day
December 10th

24. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (page 52-55 Text)
Create groups of 2 and in each group assign 3 articles of the UDHR to read and analyze.
Each group read their 3 assigned articles of the UDHR and write out on a large sheet of Poster Paper, in their own words, from their section:
Your interpretation of each article and an example of how it could be applied to a human rights issue.
Example:
Article 1: Interpretation
Examples of how it could be applied to a human rights issue:

25. UN Human Rights Council
UN Human Rights Council Members:
Asia/Pacific: Australia, China, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea. Europe: Belgium, Croatia, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Latin America/Caribbean: Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Venezuela.
As of June 19, 2018

26. U.S. Withdraws from Un Human Rights Council
Was this the right thing to do?