GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: European Migrant Crisis, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Individual And Group Rights
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What are human rights: human rights as social constructs", holds that what we understand in the world about human rights is rooted in ideas, which help shape our world. Generating consensus on universal standards of dignified life", exists because the majority of us believe that there should be human rights. Negative (proscriptive): someone else has to leave you alone to be able to fulfill that right. Positive (prescriptive) rights: implies responsibilities and obligations on others to fulfill human rights. Individual rights: fundamentally rooted in an individual manner, liberalist mind set. Example: european refugee crisis, people from the middle east trying to get into europe. On the one hand individuals have rights to be able to seek asylum when they have legitimate fear of prosecution. However, this right is coming into conflict with the rights of states which are viewing this as a threat to cultural integrity of state.
