LAWS 2105 Lecture Notes - Gender Studies, Legal Personality, Indigenous Peoples
7 Jul 2014
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Class 6 laws2105c february 11, 2014. In practice, human rights claims seem to be reinforcing the power structures that already exist. In one of the articles, it seems they enforce the power of the dominant western states. Reason you ask this question is because you want to make human rights language stronger, and want to make the promise of this language possible. Human rights nothing more than saving someone who cannot save themselves. Because of this focus on ethics/morality, law has been ignored and that is why he thinks human rights can be misused: kapur doesn"t make a moral/legal distinction. She argues that there is something inherent in human rights law that allows for its misuse; authorizes interventions and interferences that she sees as problematic. Citizen, which is a socially constituted legal concept, would be a much stronger bearer of rights.
