[ECH1100] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (43 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 1100
• Professor: Jean- Francois Ratelle

Document Summary

2nd part of semester: human rights: international human rights, human rights conflict. Understand their regimes and legal foundations: human rights and international law. International human rights law: united nations and human rights, international interventions (human rights in foreign policy) Responsibility to protect: post conflict-peace building. Denying basic liberal human rights: discrimination, repression, torture, abductions. Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatsoever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible. Human rights represent the bare minimum that is required for a person to live a human existence. Certain things that ought never to be done to people and certain other things that should be done. The right to life, liberty and security of person. The right to education and freedom or religion.