INTLSTD 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Office Of The United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights, Asian Values, Istanbul

• School: U of M
• Department: International Studies
• Course: INTLSTD 101
• Professor: Greta Uehling

Document Summary

Hugo grotius (in uenced by john locke and thomas hobbes) Natural rights vs legal rights: natural rights are not contingent on laws, customs, or participation in any nation-state, and thus, they are universal and inalienable. Legal rights are bestowed by a given legal system. Virginia declaration of rights 1776 took an abstract, philosophical notions, and put it into writing as grounds for a new gov. King george iii trampled on rights of the colonists legitimacy of any gov = ability to protect/respect human rights of individuals. Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen. Views of the body sense of moral autonomy sense of ownership of your body. The universal declaration of human rights: drafting of the udhr (see waltz reading - optional reading fyi) aftermath of wwii. Un charter speci ed creation of a commission to draft a dec of rights. Udhr: universal dec of human rights (1948) +