HUMR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Moral Universalism, Sociality

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Human Rights
• Course: HUMR 1001
• Professor: Davorka Ljubisic

Document Summary

In 1948 the universal declaration of human rights was introduced [udhr], protecting the rights of all peoples formalized within the framework of international law, yet not legally binding. The claims made in the udhr are still not respected (a huge gap between theory and practice) Western democracies preach the observance of hr regulations to non-western states while ignoring them at home. (western demo. The term hr is often confused with citizenship rights (or civil liberties): Civil liberties (given within natural law: these rights are not legitimized by universal characteristics of humanity, rights that are only allowed so far as allowed by the state. Human rights (came from universal ethical principles) Granted from below : granted from a universal set of ethical principles which seek to ensure the equal worth of each individual life, applicable to all humans at all times and all places.