HREQ 3010 Lecture Notes - American Exceptionalism, Bush Doctrine, Unilateralism

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 3010
• Professor: Antonio Torres- Ruiz

Document Summary

Human rights in the war on terror : Specific actors involved in the violation and the promotion and protection of human. Uncivil civil society: organized crime and terrorist groups. Violations of civil and political rights versus violation of social and economic rights. Paradox: power necessary for protection and source of abuse. 2008 un report: 4 billion people living without the protection of the rule of law. Little attention to the root structures and issues behind the non-implementation, both globally and locally. 1 fight for the universality of equality: human dignity (anti-western). 2 protection against the abuse of power (western and anti-western). An orchestration of upstream and downstream efforts. The human rights deficit can be overcome only if strategies of implementation look beyond judicial remedies to social transformation: conceiving them as not just legal resources but also political instruments (p. 14).