WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: United Nations General Assembly, Wgst, False Dilemma

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Aalya Ahmad

Document Summary

Lecture 3 women"s rights & human rights. Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen (france, 1789) Inalienable no one can ever take them away from us. Interdependent they all work together; the enjoyment of one human right often depends on the ability to freely exercise other human rights. Indivisible there is no hierarchy of rights; we cannot be entitled to some of them and denied others. With the end of wwii, the notion of basic human rights was enshrined in the united nations. Charter and the universal declaration of human rights. The purpose was to create a sense of security and order in europe"s post-war environment which was devastated socially, economically, politically, and morally. The un enshrined the notion of basic human rights as freedom from fear [and] freedom from want as well as the belief that peace and security stem from people"s security in their homes and in their jobs .