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Sovereignty
SP, JP. October 8: Sovereignty This section explores the development and role of international organizations, looking at the more developed and complex institutional arrangements between states than the treaty committees we have seen so far. It is argued that international organizations have become important actors in the international system of sovereign states and have changed…
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Proposal: Political torture in southeastern Perú during 1992-2000
Yongho Kim October 3, 2003 INTL245: Intro to International Human Rights Paper topic proposal: Political torture in southeastern Perú during 1992-2000 The initial motives for the internal conflict Peru has lived for two decades can be attributed to the PCP-SL (Peruvian Communist Party Shining Path), which started acting in the southeastern region of Peru, in…
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Asian Values
IC, CP, This section discusses the current human rights debate between a number of East Asian states intent on economic development and Western states’ views of basic human rights and universalism. A first perspective comes from Bilhari Kausikan. In his comment, Kausikan argues that human rights touch upon delicate matters of culture and values. In…
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Children’s Rights
AM, NA This reading reviews the development of the formation of universal children’s rights. The main document in question is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), ratified by 191 states excluding only Somalia and the United States. The convention includes articles concerning a variety of rights among them the preservation of…
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Children's Rights (Amy Margolies, Nate Andersen)
INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Professor Nadya Nedelsky reaction essays prepared by students AM, NA
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Universal Rights versus Cultural Relativism: A Continuing Debate
“Gender” JU, SL Part I: Feminism and Female Genital Mutilation This section begins by reformulating the conflict between the objectives of human rights treaties, on the one hand, and customary laws and practices as well as religious beliefs on the other within the context of gender-related issues. As a starting point for discussion, Tracy Higgins…
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Universalism and Cultural Relativism
Discussion Group 9 Reaction Paper: This section further discusses whether rights are universal or relative in character. Advocates of universality argue that certain rights such as equal protection, freedom of speech and religion are common and thus can transcend cultures. In opposition, cultural relativists argue that rights and rules of morality are encoded in a…
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Response to The Notion of “Rights”: Origins and Relations to Duties
Group 8: AT, AW, Yongho Kim Response to The Notion of “Rights”: Origins and Relations to Duties. Monday, September 22nd. Chapter 5 provides a close-up of the notion of rights and their historical evolution. The notion of rights emerged as a refining of the concept of ‘natural law’ coined in the 17th and 18th centuries…
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Film Review of Lumumba
Film Review of Lumumba Anthropology 258: African Societies Yongho Kim I have seen Lumumba as a traditional film containing the ten years before and immediately following the independence of DRC. In other words, the fact that the theme was based in Africa did not tweak the way in which the narrative itself was presented, as…
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ICESCR
INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Professor Nadya Nedelsky reaction essays prepared by students HM, CH, AP Response to ICESCR
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CEDAW
INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Professor Nadya Nedelsky Readig Review prepared by students Group 5: AG, EO, RR
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Historical Remarks
Reading Review INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Nadya Nedelsky JH, RN, NE
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Customary Law and Treaties
INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Nadya Nedelsky JP, SP, AM. Group 3
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the fate of the UN
[Sep. 9th, 2003|04:50 pm] [ mood | amused ] Overheard today as I was crossing the Grand/Snelling along with this usual guy: Daughter: …and Liberia is in charge of human rights. Mom: … Daughter: some terrorist country takes care of nuclear weapons.. can you believe that, mom? Mom: … Daughter: and they say Kofi Annan…
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International Law
INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Professor Nadya Nedelsky reaction essays prepared by students IC. Group 2
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pant-pockets
I just found out that the black shorts I have worn for six years has a pocket in its back. LOL
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World briefs
INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Professor Nadya Nedelsky reaction essays prepared by students AM, NA
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sobig virus
I received 37 emails today with the same message on them. Skynet is taking over! Wah! Update: 150 more poured in for the 2 days that followed since then. I even got some that were supposedly “sent” from me, then reached an expired addressed, and returned to me!
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Reaction Paper: Stanford Prison Experiment
Introduction to Psychology Laboratory Mike Mensik Due at April 15th, 2003 Yongho Kim In 1971, Zimbardo set an experiment in the basement of Stanford University simulating a prison environment to see the effects of imprisonment in regular civilians. He and his team recruited 24 college students for a paid, two-week experiment. Half of the subjects…
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Storage crisis!
Yes. It hurts to them. I laughed. I knew how crazy storage had been last year. So I started packing right away on May 5th. Finished two boxes. They went right away on the 8th into storage. Finished another box. It went on 9th. Another one. 11th. So I got my fifth stack, mostly paper…