CAS IR 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Negative And Positive Rights, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, United Nations Human Rights Committee
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Follows tradition of treaty writing documents would be legally binding on both states. Does not challenge the concept of sovereignty focuses on how countries treat citizens of other countries, not their own. Not concerned on what you do to your own people. Red cross monitors, sign the convention you have a commitment to live up to that convention, work with countries to inform them if they have any violations you open your borders to the red cross. Integrate geneva conventions rules into your own laws. Source of human rights in the enlightenment: rights must be: Historical sources of modern human rights: moral/religious roots. As horrible and offensive the holocaust was, it was not illegal. They did to their own citizens in their own territory. Holocaust was not illegal under german law. But sovereignty could not justify such atrocities: also showed potential for even the worst regimes to be constrained by international law, united nations and human rights.