HIST 285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Section 33 Of The Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms, International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights
11 Apr 2017
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Jaggi singh supposed to be guest speaker. The value of human rights lies as much in our capacity to use them strategically as it does in the norms and values as they espouse. Who"s rights they protect is part of what we will be talking about (and central to the debates about human rights advocacy) Not everybody has access to it in the same way. Human rights advocacy looks to governments because they are legally bound by conventions (they sign on to) As critical legal scholars, important to look at context in which things emerge: wwii o. Concept of human rights was before this, but this was a codification of it. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. These concepts are important in how they get defined (i. e dignity, equality) o. Over time, we"ve come to include other concepts (i. e ground for discrimination) in order to understand what as human beings inequality means.
