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Learning Intention
To understand contemporary debates surrounding human rights
LEARNING INTENTIONS
Success Criteria
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about the universality of human rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about economic vs. social-political rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about religion vs. universality
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about humanitarian intervention
Learning intentionTo understand contemporary
global human rights legal architecture
LEARNING INTENTIONS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA
Success Criteria
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about the universality of human rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about economic vs. social-political rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about religion vs. universality
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about humanitarian intervention
CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
• Economic and Social rights before political and civil rights
• Cultural relativism
• Universality vs. Religion
KK 2: HUMAN RIGHTS
Learning intentionTo understand contemporary
global human rights legal architecture
LEARNING INTENTIONS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA
Success Criteria
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about the universality of human rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about economic vs. social-political rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about religion vs. universality
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about humanitarian intervention
CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
Economic and social rights before political and civil rights
Civil and political rights• Rights that protect individuals' freedom from
infringement by governments, social organizations and private individuals.
Economic, social and cultural rights • Relate to the guaranteed things like
education, housing, adequate standard of living etc.
KK 2: HUMAN RIGHTS
Learning intentionTo understand contemporary
global human rights legal architecture
LEARNING INTENTIONS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA
Success Criteria
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about the universality of human rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about economic vs. social-political rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about religion vs. universality
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about humanitarian intervention
CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
KK 2: HUMAN RIGHTS
Economic and social rights before political and civil rights: case study
“The rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and association are limited in Singapore in the name of security, public order, morality, and racial and religious harmony.” – Human Rights Watch, 2014
Learning intentionTo understand contemporary
global human rights legal architecture
LEARNING INTENTIONS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA
Success Criteria
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about the universality of human rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about economic vs. social-political rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about religion vs. universality
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about humanitarian intervention
CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
• Economic and social rights before political and civil rights
KK 2: HUMAN RIGHTSCivil and Political
Social, cultural and Economic rights
Background • Western tradition of rights
• Found in the American bill of rights
• Found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Rights that ‘people may need’ to exist
• More likely to be promoted in the developing world
Beliefs • Believe in increasing ‘human freedoms’ such as ‘freedom of speech’ etc.
Believe in ensuring ‘human development’ through the right to education, healthcare etc.
Supporters USA, Australia, European Nations
Developing countries (usually): Singapore, Malaysia, China
Criticism That other rights (social etc.) should be prioritised over civil and political rights; These rights are overly western.
Development is not an excuse for putting civil and political rights on hold, these are human needs too.
Learning intentionTo understand contemporary
global human rights legal architecture
LEARNING INTENTIONS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA
Success Criteria
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about the universality of human rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about economic vs. social-political rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about religion vs. universality
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about humanitarian intervention
CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
Cultural relativism
• Cultural relativism argues that human rights and their enforcement are not universal but change from culture to culture, and these differences should be respected.
KK 2: HUMAN RIGHTS
Learning intentionTo understand contemporary
global human rights legal architecture
LEARNING INTENTIONS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA
Success Criteria
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about the universality of human rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about economic vs. social-political rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about religion vs. universality
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about humanitarian intervention
CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
Cultural relativism: Case Study• Through the system of
traditional chiefs many offences, including homicides, have traditionally been resolved by reconciliation.
• The ceremony involves the admission of wrongdoing, offering of compensation by the offender and then the sharing of symbolic drink called Mato Oput.
• In addition, individual cleansing rituals routinely take place whenever former LRA members return to the community.
KK 2: HUMAN RIGHTS
Learning intentionTo understand contemporary
global human rights legal architecture
LEARNING INTENTIONS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA
Success Criteria
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about the universality of human rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about economic vs. social-political rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about religion vs. universality
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about humanitarian intervention
CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
• Cultural relativism
KK 2: HUMAN RIGHTS
Universalism Cultural Relativism
Background
Beliefs
Supporters
Criticism
Learning intentionTo understand contemporary
global human rights legal architecture
LEARNING INTENTIONS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA
Success Criteria
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about the universality of human rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about economic vs. social-political rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about religion vs. universality
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about humanitarian intervention
CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
Universality vs. Religion• In contemporary Global Politics this often refers to
the differences between the Universal Human Rights discourse and Islam.
• Islamic states believe that human rights in the UDHR are incompatible with their political-legal systems that combine religion and politics.
KK 2: HUMAN RIGHTS
Learning intentionTo understand contemporary
global human rights legal architecture
LEARNING INTENTIONS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA
Success Criteria
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about the universality of human rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about economic vs. social-political rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about religion vs. universality
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about humanitarian intervention
CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
Universalism v. IslamCase Study• UDHR Article 18: Everyone has
the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
• Sharia law bans the practice of any religion except for Islam.
• Universalists argue that Islam should not be a cover for avoiding UDHR, they argue that Islam oppresses women by forcing them to wear the veil and also through the male dominated system.
• Islam points to the sexual exploitation of women in the West as an example of hypocrisy.
KK 2: HUMAN RIGHTS
Learning intentionTo understand contemporary
global human rights legal architecture
LEARNING INTENTIONS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA
Success Criteria
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about the universality of human rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about economic vs. social-political rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about religion vs. universality
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about humanitarian intervention
CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
• Universality vs. Religion
KK 2: HUMAN RIGHTS
Universalism Religion
Background
Beliefs
Supporters
Criticism
Learning intentionTo understand contemporary
global human rights legal architecture
LEARNING INTENTIONS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA
Success Criteria
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about the universality of human rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about economic vs. social-political rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about religion vs. universality
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about humanitarian intervention
CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
Exam revision
2014Q. 10 Explain one response of a global actor to an international law or treaty that relates to this issue.
Q. 11 Using one issue, analyse two sides to one of the following ethical debates:
• The principle of universality versus religion• Obligations to strangers versus national interest• Development versus sustainable development• Arms control versus disarmament
KK 2: HUMAN RIGHTS
Learning intentionTo understand contemporary
global human rights legal architecture
LEARNING INTENTIONS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA
Success Criteria
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about the universality of human rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about economic vs. social-political rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about religion vs. universality
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about humanitarian intervention
CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
Exam revision
2013Q. 9 Analyse how effectively a global actor has responded to this issue.
Q. 10 Analyse one ethical debate on (an issue you have studied in this Area of Study) issue.
KK 2: HUMAN RIGHTS
Learning intentionTo understand contemporary
global human rights legal architecture
LEARNING INTENTIONS AND SUCCESS CRITERIA
Success Criteria
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about the universality of human rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about economic vs. social-political rights
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about religion vs. universality
WWBAT describe contemporary debates about humanitarian intervention
CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
Exam revision
2013Question 10
a. Identify one international law or treaty that relates to this issue. This may be pre-twenty first century. 1 mark
b. Explain the impact that this international law or treaty has had on your chosen issue in the twenty-firstcentury. 5 marks
Q. 11 Explain one ethical debate that has arisen in relation to this issue. 6 marks
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