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Monday January 10 2011Lecture 2: What are human rights II
PS 2B03/LS 2W03/WS 2A03: Human Rights and Social JusticeDr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University
What are human rights IIIntroduction to the concept of human rights
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Outline
• Explore specic sections of the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights
• Health care debates• Torture
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Reports have emerged... That the frequency and
intensity [of techniques including waterboarding, andthe, application] to high value detainees constitutestorture, even if their use in isolation falls short of thatdesignation.
Reeta Tremblay et al (2008)
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...in December 2005, the UN High Commissioner onHuman Rights declared that U.S. Conduct in the war onterror was eroding both the United States andinternational legal prohibitions on torture.
Reeta Tremblay et al (2008)
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Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequatefor the health and well-being of himself and of hisfamily, including food, clothing, housing and medical care
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 25
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• 59 million people medically uninsured• 132 million people without dental insurance• 60 million people without paid sick leave
The U.S.A.
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Ideological paradigms
Mike Huckabee
Democracy Now January 5, 2011
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/1/5/dr_atul_gawande_solitary_connement_is
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No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 5
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For Wednesday
• What factors do you think have shaped
contemporary discourse around human rights in thewest? Identify any shifts and reect o theirimplications for today and the near future.
• What might an anti-colonial human rights
framework look like/consist of?
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Citations & further reading
Lila Abu-Lughod (2002) Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? AnthropologicalRe ections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others, American Anthropologist , Vol. 104,No. 3: pp. 783-790.
Reeta Tremblay, James Kelly, Michael Lipson and Jean Francois Mayer (2008)Understanding Human Rights: Origins, Currents and Critiques, Nelson: Toronto. pp. 21-56(Chapter 2. Human Rights in World Politics).
World Health Organization (2000) e World Health Report Health Systems: Improving , Switzerland. Available onlineh p://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/whr00_en.pdf
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