INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dalit, Social Stratification, Political Freedom

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: Kazue Takamura

Document Summary

Universal declaration of human rights (udhr) 1948. Universal covenant on civil and political rights (1966) Universal covenant on economic, social, and 1966 cultural rights. Long absence of human rights in development, major shift only in the 1990s (the rise of human development, democratization in asia, latin america, and eastern europe) International convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination 1965. Social (including cultural, economic) freedom: discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, class, and caste. Freedom is an essential condition for maximizing human capabilities. Causes of dilemmas: human rights as western values. Human rights as universal human conditions or as western (modern) values. Rejection of human rights as western values by developing countries. Western values are the freedom of the individual (liberalism = central idea of western political thought) and this shapes the idea of human rights. In other words, there is a distinction between individualism created by westerns and collectivism created by non-westerns.