POLSCI 2I03 Lecture 13: Lecture 13.docx

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2I03
• Professor: Andrew Lui

Document Summary

Article about wto, etc: evolving issues in international trade. Why the wto and trips agreement are important because many rich countries in the development world wanted to make intellectual property, they didn"t want to infringe on private property. Example, china would sell pirated dvds of hollywood movies. So during the lead up from making gatt to wto, there were discussions was the issue of property right. The aids virus was discovered around this time, 1980"s -90"s and many countries affected by aids, about 80% of the adult population carried these disease. So if you were in south you were not happy about the rich countries upholding such information from you that could prevent aids or raise awareness. Human rights are also interdisciplinary so we need to look at other issue areas to see what they are. Origins of human rights: are important feature of all political life and have been for centuries, the idea of rights is not new.