Human Rights 1

Liberalism

Individuals are moral equals with rights: government exists to secure their rights under law.

Totalitarianism

The state orders society around a single ideology, which suppresses individual freedoms and dissent.

Utilitarianism

Maximizing utility for the greatest amount of people.

Conservatism

Preserving traditional values and cautious around change.

Practicality

Rights are able to be achieved realistically

Customary international law

Law made by tradition, unwritten rule of international behavior

Sovereignty

State has supreme authority within its territory and independence from external control.

UN Charter

Founding treaty of the United Nations, defines state sovereignty, commits to peace, human rights, and cooperation.

UDHR

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

ICCPR

International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights. Immediately actionable, nondiscriminatory.

ICESCR

International Covenant of Economic Cultural and Social Rights. Rights are to be progressively realized as resources become available.

Interdependence

Rights are dependent on each other. 

MMIM

Governments in between Democracy and Autocracy are more likely to have political violence. For example Russia under Putin.

Non-derogable rights

Rights which cannot be suspended

Overlapping consensus

When people have different cultural or religious beliefs agree on political justice

Banality of Evil

Idea by Hannah Arendt saying that people who commit evil deeds can be ordinary and unremarkable people, following orders without questioning the consequences

ECOSOC

ECOnomic and SOcial Convention.

Humanitarian Law

Rules to help limit the civilian death during war. (only during war)

Neocolonialism

A state using its power to control or influence a formerly colonized nation, even after they gain independence, through political pressure and debt.

Fascism

Dictator, suppression of opposition, militarism, emphasis on nation or race, far right ideology. Not communist/socialist.

Performative claiming

Supporting something or making a claim to improve one’s image rather than actual support

Four Freedoms

Speech, Worship, Want, Fear

States Rights

Duty to Respect, protect, fulfill, progressive realization, extraterritorial duty.

CEDAW

Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women