ECH 2310 Lecture 2: The Last Utopia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 2310
• Professor: Omid B Milani

Document Summary

Talks about how the trace/origin of human rights comes not from ancient times, the renaissance. Uses these writings as a source of empathy and date it back to revolutionary. France where the idea of human rights come from: moyn is using historical evidence to persuade people of his political agenda. 1970s where regular humans got ahold of it (moyn"s thesis) Hersch lauterpacht: member of the un law committee and icj judge: not archival history: Un in 1946 the supranational mode of governance that was beyond law in many states (trustee) As a result of residing in 8/11 territories, the inhabitants were the first in the world to petition the un directly and individually and they had to send a response. Most of them are regular everyday people who talk about inheritance rights, marriage and discrimination rights. Ww2 and the persecution/genocide of jews= statelessness, loss of citizenship, colonialism. Can go anywhere within a particular historical necessity.