POL 2103 Lecture Notes - 2005 World Summit, World Health Organization, Millennium Summit
13 Mar 2014
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Pol 2103 e - intro to international relations & global politics - joseph roman - 20 mar. Gender & human security: women are targets for deprivation & violence, the status of women affect poverty & the problems of population growth, education is less, reproduction rights absent in many places, access to health care limited. Ecological aspects of human security: increasing scarcity of resources may trigger inter-state warfare, prospects for environmental refugees placing new pressures on states. Migration: refugees & how they"re defined, are states the only problem, migrant workers & their rights, internally displaced persons. Infections diseases: the role of the world health organization (who, the movement of peoples, hiv/aids. In canada, you have to be pursued by the canadian state to be considered a refugee. Need to be relativistic when assessing people"s security needs. Human rights: civil & political rights provide for protections against legal abuses by states.
