HRTS 2115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Due Process, Voluntary Association, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: University of Iowa Center for Human Rights
• Course: HRTS 2115
• Professor: Jo Butterfield and Amy Weismann

Document Summary

Rights owed to all people (and sometimes to the collectives to which they belong) by the governing state simply on the basis of being human, and that, as humans, we are: To promote and protect human rights thus requires an understanding that human rights are: Scholars, activists, and state actors sometimes find it useful to classify human rights, yet these categories can also be problematic and used to prioritize or hierarchize rights for political purposes. Civil and political rights vs. economic, social, and cultural rights. Limits the power of the government in order to protect the rights of the individual. Right to participate in government directly or through elected representatives. Freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention/due process of law. The bill of rights in the u. s. constitution, for instance, contains negative rights. Require positive state intervention to provide for the public good. Secured via economic, social, and cultural rights.