POG 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mahatma Gandhi, Relativism, Autocracy

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 315
• Professor: Abbas Gnamo

Document Summary

Lecture 1: the origins, meaning, and development of human rights. International human rights regime is an established feature of world society. Rights can be claimed, liberties, powers, or immunities (i. e. diplomatic immunity) Immunity is where you are immune to laws in other countries. Three generations of rights, coined by karel vasak in the 1970s (based on slogans of french. Problems: compliance, enforcement and the politics of human rights: when governments abuse their power to manipulate the laws and move around them. Implementing is also difficult because it is hard to enforce everyone to abide by the laws. Human rights are the rights one has because one is human. Hr are held by all human beings, irrespective of any rights or duties one may or may not have as citizens, members of families, workers, etc. Hr is defined as basic moral guarantees that people in all countries and cultures allegedly have simply because they are people .