PSCI 3802 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Human Rights, United Nations, International Law

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 3802
• Professor: Sophie Marcotte-Chenard

Document Summary

Myanmar"s violence against the rohingya minority: main problem: after rwandan genocide, there was this idea that we shouldn"t do this again. Turkey"s repression of political opponents and imprisonment of intellectuals and academics. The republican plan in the us to repel daca (dream act) Torture of suspected terrorists in guantanamo bay prison. The abuses and disappearances of aboriginal women in many places: all these go to show that this discourse is fairly new. The universal declaration of human rights: created in 1948, after wwii, there was a momentum for nations to create this declaration given the atrocities that occurred during this time with the holocaust. Realistically, the political and civil rights came first before the enactment of economic and social rights. However, it can be said that these rights are interrelated and must exist at the same time rather than one being seen as more important that the other. There is often a trade-off between security and liberty: ex.