INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Kofi Annan, United Nations Human Rights Committee, Secret Ballot
19 Dec 2012
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Wednesday, october 17, 2012: enforcement and implementation of human. Cultural relativism in the news: a pakistani girl was shot because she was campaigning for the right of girls to go to school. The taliban argued the right of girls to go to school was only a western idea so it does not apply in their country. Enforcement and implementation of human rights standards. The aspirations the un set are great, but enforcement is difficult (which is clear because today we still see gross violations in the congo, in cambodia, in. Syria, the roma people in europe, aboriginals in canada, etc. ) The first obligation when countries ratify a human rights declaration is to make it law at home (they ratify the declaration and amend their domestic laws to apply to the standards of the treaty). Some countries also have human rights institutions set up domestically (ex. In canada there is a federal and provincial human rights commissions, we have the charter).
