POL114H5- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 66 pages long!)
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And who decides: human rights in ir, problem of sovereignty, westphalia: designed to end meddling in internal affairs of states, anarchy: no impartial authority to do the meddling. Typically, states: positive rights are more expensive. Three ways to address hr: prevention (law, publicity, monitoring, norms) Intervention (humanitarian intervention which really means military, human security, responsibility to protect r2p, publicity and monitoring: post-(cid:448)iolatio(cid:374) justi(cid:272)e (cid:894)icc, truth a(cid:374)d re(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)iliatio(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)issio(cid:374)s t c(cid:859)s(cid:895) et(cid:272). Genocide convention: 1948: convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide (genocide convention) International covenant on civil and political rights (1966, 1976: mostly 1st generation rights, plus sself determination, monitored by un human rights committee. I(cid:374) retur(cid:374), get (cid:862)assista(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) fro(cid:373) the (cid:449)est (cid:894)(cid:449)hi(cid:272)h the(cid:455) (cid:374)eeded(cid:895) signed: local ngos proliferate, many with helsinki in their names (i. e helsinki watch, later. Human rights watch: unintended consequences, states sign onto hr accords they do not intend to uphold, but be held to account later.
