LWSO 203 Lecture Notes - Negative And Positive Rights, Cultural Relativism, Kim Jong-Un

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Law and Society
• Course: LWSO 203
• Professor: Marywyatt Sindlinger

Document Summary

International human rights: hunan rights: introduction a) b) Purpose of human rights law: to limit the actions of the state in relation to the individual in order to protect fundamental human rights. State to state relationships, not indiv. human rights. Overlap between international hr law and morality and concepts of freedom and justice and peace. Repetition of idea of natural law inherent & inalienable rights . Human rights are basis of society as a whole (starts with the indiv. and flows to rest, rather than the other way around) c) Universal: generally accepted by all e. g. right to life, prohibition of torture (use. Historical impetus for protection of hr wwii. All rights in dec are negative rights i. e. nobody has to provide them for you. > only way to make binding legal obligations b/w countries in intl. law is for them to voluntarily agree to the legal obligations. >countries can voluntarily submit reports on their human rights behaviours to un.