INTD 200 Lecture Notes - International Criminal Court, United Nations Convention Against Torture, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: Warren Allmand

Document Summary

Wednesday, october 3, 2012: expansion of human rights instruments. According to the doctrine of human rights, contrary to legal/constitutional/legal rights, they are rights which are inherent to every human being. This means no matter where they"re born, their age, their ability, their location, etc. Because they are inherent, they cannot be given or taken away. They only can be recognized in laws, in the constitution, in international covenants, but they are not given. They can also be not recognized and abused and ignored, but the fact that they are ignored doesn"t mean they don"t exist. The first universal recognition of human rights was in the 1945 charter of the. Un, and they said that the support and maintenance and expansion of human rights was one of the purposes of the un. They didn"t expand this, but they set up the un commission on human rights, which drafted the.