POLS 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: United Nations General Assembly

• School: Temple University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1301
• Professor: Sarah Bush

Document Summary

Understand what human rights and human rights law are. International law refers to a body of rules that bind states and other agents in world politics and is considered to have the status of law. Characteristics of international law: obligation, precision, delegation, hard vs soft. Human rights are rights that all individuals possess by virtue of being human, regardless of their status as citizens of particular states or members of a group or organization. Vague consensus on rights masks major differences in definition. States may see foreign efforts to promote rights as malign. A legacy of the new deal and world war 2.