SOSC 2351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: French Revolution, International Covenant On Civil And Political Rights, Social Fact

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2351
• Professor: Tanja Juric

Document Summary

We all have the same rights > universal. Doesn"t have a force behind the law, countries that show violence towards their own people. Universal, held equally by all people (regardless of race, gender, class, nationality, etc) They are the basis of human dignity; individual an collective self- determination. That all human beings posses this, human beings are unique on the planet, and only humans have this. At its first section, in 1946, the general assembly considered a draft. 10 december 1946, the general assembly adopted the universal declaration of human rights as the first of these projected instruments. Universal declaration of human rights (dec. 10, 1948) International covenant on economic, social and cultural rights (dec. International covenant on civil and political rights (dec 16, 1966) The declaration consists of a preamble and 30 articles, setting forth the human rights and fundamental freedoms in which all men and women, everywhere in the world, are entitled, without any discrimination.