INR 3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Humanitarian Intervention, Hutu, Rwandan Patriotic Front
24 Apr 2017
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International human rights: human rights development, enlightenment/liberalism: begins with enlightenment thinkers, when we begin to see concepts of individual freedoms and equality develop. Property rights, ability to resist oppression, and religious and voting rights formulated: declaration of the rights of man and the citizen (1789): at the spark of the. Didn"t apply to colonies, women, those who didn"t own property. This is a starting point of these rights being acknowledged. The concept of these rights spread during the. 6,000,000 lost their lives, but 7,000,000 non-jews did as well. First coined the term genocide in 1944 applied to the events of the holocaust. Sought to protect the individual"s rights on a broad level political, religious, economic, social, civic, and collective rights. If a government/country acknowledges that all of its citizens are equal, it should see others as being equal as well. Problem: when it was drafted, the intent was to make it legally binding on the states.
