HIST391 final

week 3

Status of a UN convention vs. UN declaration

Socio-economic rights

Political rights

Living wage

Neoliberalism 

John Maynard Keynes 

Rights-based public budgeting

Gender-responsive budgeting

Tax justice

Justiciable

Week 4

Self-determination

Woodrow Wilson

V.I. Lenin

League of Nations

Kwame Nkrumah

UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (1960)

Common Article 1 of the two covenants on human rights in 1966

Non-self-governing territories

East Timor referendum on self-determination in 1999

Nation-state

Week 5

UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948

Raphael Lemkin

The idea of permanent security according to Dirk Moses

The hierarchy of crimes, with genocide understood as ‘the crime of crimes’

Indian Residential Schools

Sixties Scoop

Shognosh

Civilian immunity

3 kinds of genocide as mentioned in the Secretariat Draft: cultural, biological, and physical 

Week 6

Principle of proportionality

Principle of distinction

Military necessity

Kreigsraison

International Humanitarian Law (IHL)

The four Geneva Conventions of 1949

Crimes Against Humanity

War Crimes

Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907

Martens Clause

Henri Dunant

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Nuremberg Tribunal

Rome Statute (1998)

International Criminal Court

Week 7 

Russian Revolution of 1917

USSR’s emphasis on two kinds of rights: socio-economic rights and right of national self- determination

Comintern (The Communist International)

Soviet policy of Korenizatsiia (Indigenization)

Alexander Esenin-Volpin

Andrei Sakharov

Helsinki Accords of 1975

Helsinki Watch

Decommodification Rights

Struggle concepts

Week 8 

W.E.B. Du Bois

Jim Crow

Civil Rights Congress

NAACP

Eleanor Roosevelt

Martin Luther King Jr.

Rosa Parks

Civil Rights Act of 1964

We Charge Genocide petition to the UN in 1951

Racial covenants

Gerrymandering

Week 9

Securofeminism

Gender-Based Violence Against Women (GBVAC)

UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006

TWAIL African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

Section 377 of penal codes of British colonies

International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA)

2SLGBTQI+

Bayard Rustin

Yogyakarta Principles

Week 10 

Section 377 of penal codes in the British empire: “intercourse against the order of nature”

International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA)

2SLGBTQI+

Bayard Rustin

Yogyakarta Principles

The UN General Assembly has passed neither a declaration nor a convention yet on SOGI rights, but the UN Human Rights Council has approved of statements supporting SOGI rights

Canadian Charter of Rights of Freedoms, promulgated in 1982

The Canadian Supreme Court began ruling in 1984 on cases that determine whether laws accord with the principles of the Charter. The Supreme Court began invalidating those laws it deems to be in violation of the Charter.

Week 12

Sixties Scoop

“White Paper,” 1969, Canada

“The Cobo Report.” Written by Ambassador José Martinez Cobo of Ecuador in the 1970s as global a study of discrimination against Indigenous peoples. Issued by the UN in 1982-83.

International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), founded in 1974 at Standing Rock reservation in Lakota territory, South Dakota, when “elders and leaders decided to take their treaty issues to the international level” (Lightfoot, p. 37)

World Council on Indigenous Peoples, founded in Port Alberni, British Columbia, in 1975

NGO conference in Geneva in 1977 titled Discrimination against Indigenous Populations in the Americas, which issued: “The Draft Declaration of Principles for the Defense of the Indigenous Nations and Peoples of the Western Hemisphere” 

The UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP), established in 1982

Rigoberta Menchú

UNDRIP, 2007

Plural sovereignty