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Evolution of Human Rights: From Limitations on Warfare to Global Norms

Explore the development of human rights from primitive law to international conventions, trials, and declarations. Understand the progression of individual and collective rights, with key events like the Nuremberg Trials and the creation of the International Criminal Court.

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Evolution of Human Rights: From Limitations on Warfare to Global Norms

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  1. Unit 12 - Human Rights

  2. Types of Human Rights • Individual Rights • Freedom From ____ • Freedom To ______ • Collective Rights • Communal Indicators • Quality of life

  3. A Developing Norm • Bartolome de las Casas • Westpahlian system precludes human rights law • International law focuses on state behavior • Primitive law – rules are decided and enforced by the participants • Human Rights law began as limitations on warfare • From slavery to Geneva

  4. A Developing Norm • Geneva Conventions • Nuremberg Trials • Genocide Convention • Universal Declaration of Human Rights • Helsinki Declaration • CEDAW convention • SC Resolution 688

  5. A Developing Norm • Rwanda • Kosovo War • War crimes tribunals • International Criminal Court • 2000 Plenary speech by Kofi Annon • Darfur • This norm is developing in our generation

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