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Human Rights. Unit 4, AOS 1: Ethical Issues and Debates. UDHR. UDHR. Created in 1948 by UN General Assembly. Modern concept of Human Rights is an evolving one. 4 Basic Characteristics to Human Rights. Represent demands for shaping and sharing of power, wealth and other human goods
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Human Rights Unit 4, AOS 1: Ethical Issues and Debates
UDHR • Created in 1948 by UN General Assembly. • Modern concept of Human Rights is an evolving one.
4 Basic Characteristics to Human Rights • Represent demands for shaping and sharing of power, wealth and other human goods • Be fundamental as distinct from non-essential claims or goods • Allow for the rights of others (most assertions are qualified by the limitation that rights are restricted as much as it is necessary to secure the comparable rights of others) • Be universal in character possessed equally by all human beings.
How does this relate to Ethics? • Foreign Policy Issue. US Trade Policy with PRC PRC Human Rights Record: Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989
Why do they need help? • The main challenge for international society is national interest and sovereignty. • HOWEVER there are lots of examples where this hasn’t been a challenge? • SYRIA – this is a challenge now. • R2P (Responsibility to Protect)
Activity Make a list of challenges that face the safeguarding of human rights.