PSCI-1102 Lecture 31: Class 31
29 Nov 2016
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Human rights - the rights possessed by all individuals by virtue of being human. Developed from the enlightenment - english writer john locke. Concept that spawned the french and american revolutions. Befroe wwii, most universal claims to human rights lacked legitimacy - group rights were more important than individual rights. After the devastation of wwii - particularly the holocaust the udhr was created. The universal declaration of human rights - adopted by the un general assembly in. 1948, was the product of deliberations to clarify human rights. The document has four pillars - dignity, liberty, equality and brotherhood. After the holocaust there was also the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide. The first piece of hard international human rights law. In the late 1940s the process to writing hard laws of human rights was difficult because every law got caught between the different ideals of the super powers.
