1. Unit 12 - Human Rights

2. Types of Human Rights Individual Rights –Freedom From ____ –Freedom To ______ Collective Rights –Communal Indicators –Quality of life

3. A Developing Norm Bartolome de las Casas Westpahlian system precludes human rights law –International law focuses on state behavior Primitive law – rules are decided and enforced by the participants Human Rights law began as limitations on warfare –From slavery to Geneva

4. A Developing Norm Geneva Conventions Nuremberg Trials Genocide Convention Universal Declaration of Human Rights Helsinki Declaration CEDAW convention SC Resolution 688

5. A Developing Norm Rwanda Kosovo War War crimes tribunals International Criminal Court 2000 Plenary speech by Kofi Annon Darfur This norm is developing in our generation