POL340Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Burqa, Collective Action, United Nations Human Rights Council
6 Mar 2018
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Iccpr and icescr o o o o o o o o. Rights divided up into two international treaties, iccpr, and icescr. Best framed as negative obligations rights in the icscr are known as positive. Eastern bloc countries in times of negotiations wanted these rights in there whe. Iccpr considered more legal because of these negative obligations. Article 6 includes right to life, article 7 prohibition on torture. Prohibition on slavery, liberty and security of a person. With freedom of religion, consensus that these can be limiting in certain circum. Limit the rights in some way if something looks like it violates fre expressing yourself, if state however can show that there is a good r. Some suggest it is not absolute right against unreasonable search a derogations. Derogations say that even if the right doesn"t seem to be a reasonabl nation. All rights guaranteed subject to reasonable limits (canadian charter. Derogations occur when national emergency threatening the life of t.
