HUMR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Norberto Bobbio, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Arbitrary Arrest And Detention

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

Document Summary

T. h marshall brought evolution of citizenship rights, analogy to 3 generations of human rights. He says the (1) irst rights we were granted were civil rights; rights to liberty, freedom of speech, developed during the 18th century. Says (2) civil rights were followed in the 19th century by the political, cultural, economic rights. 20th century we got (3) collective, meaning all humans in the world have rights. National citizen rights (diferent per country) are inscribed in our constitution. Then, on diferent levels, universal and international human rights. Human rights abuses in the world today: violation of the rights are still the same as in the 90"s. The un introduction of the universal declaration of human rights (udhr) in 1948; New optimism, possibilities for a better world (peace progress, prosperity) The top 10 states the worst abuses of human rights worldwide in the late 1990"s.