POL 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Arab Spring, United Nations Human Rights Council, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1102
• Professor: Daniel Pierre- Antoine

Document Summary

The what & why of international human rights. Universal declaration of human rights (udhr) (1948) Two international treaties based on the udhr. International covenant on civil and political rights: signed in 1966, promoted by democratic & capitalist states, main goal: restrain government powers, focus on individual rights, summary & full text. International covenant on eco-nomic, social and cultural rights: signed in 1966, promoted by communist & developing states, main goal: promote economic equality & social cohesion, focus on collective rights, summary & full text. Human security the security of the person freedom from fear freedom from want. Raising the issue: the impor-tance of human rights ngos. Office of the high commissioner for human rights. What states (can) do: from engagement to isolation and sanctions. Humanitarian military intervention for crimes against humanity & genocide. Appendix 2: humanitarian assistance in natural disasters. Disparate protestors (cid:862)(cid:396)egula(cid:396)(cid:863) y(cid:396)ia(cid:374)s (cid:894)f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the sta(cid:396)t(cid:895) religiously-motivated fighters (after 2012: i(cid:374)cl.