POSC 017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sub-Saharan Africa, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Desmond Tutu

• School: UC Riverside
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POSC 017
• Professor: Miguel Carreras

Document Summary

Many developing countries democratized in the last 30 years third wave of. Some auth regimes were very repressive mass killings, disappearances, torture. Many civil wars also came to an end in the developing world (ex. What are human rights? residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language or any other status. Human rights are rights inherited to all human beings, whatever their nationality, place of. Universal declaration of human rights (udhr) is a declaration adopted by the un. Examples of human rights from the udhr: Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person . No one shall be held in slavery or servitude . No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment . No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile . Everyone has the right to freedom of thought . In auth regimes sometimes these rights are broken of prior regime.