DHD 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Dean Spade, Human Rights Watch
10 Feb 2016
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Rights and their objects: a right is an entitlement. Hailee gibbons us to: a possible limit of rights. Economic, social, and cultural rights: right to material goods and social benefits necessary to facilitate the well being of a person, examples include the rights to, work, education, healthcare, housing. Positive rights: the notions of negative and positive rights should be understood to refer to the nature of rights. Who"s responsible for rights: the observance, respect for, promotion, and protection of human rights is both an individual and collective issue, states, nations or countries, inter-governmental organizations, e. g. , the united nations; european union; african union; World bank: non-governmental organizations e. g. human rights watch; amnesty international, individual rights holders (e. g. a person with disability) Disability rights: disability rights, objects that specifically grant rights to disabled people. Laws and/or policies: idea or set of beliefs, disability rights movements, the collective struggle for rights. History you learn today is us based.
