Human Rights implications
- Created by: Kirsty Pym
- Created on: 17-04-14 13:50
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- What are human rights, and why do they have implications for global politics?
- Implications
- Establish a framework of standards to which all states and other bodies should conform and which has higher moral authority and national legal systems
- The doctrine of human rights has profound implications for the principle of state sovereignty
- 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights - implications for international law and bodies such as the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court
- Impose obligations on states in their dealings with other states, implying that a concern to pursue self-interest should be balanced against a duty to protect and uphold human rights
- Trade relations and membership of intergovernmental bodies should be conditional upon a state's human right's record
- Humanitarian intervention - states or international bodies intervene militarily in the affairs of another state in order to uphold human rights
- Human Rights
- Rights to which people are entitled by virtue of being human
- Modern and secular version of 'natural rights'
- God-given
- Universal, fundamental and absolute
- Fundamental - inalienable - can be denied or violated but a human being's entitlement to them cannot be removed
- Universal - belong to everyone regardless of nationality, ethnic or racial origin, social background etc.
- Absolute - they cannot be qualified
- Implications
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