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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…

Children's Rights (Amy Margolies, Nate Andersen)

Sep 30, 2003

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INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Professor Nadya Nedelsky reaction essays prepared by students AM, NA

Universal Rights versus Cultural Relativism: A Continuing Debate

Sep 26, 2003

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“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…

Universalism and Cultural Relativism

Sep 24, 2003

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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…

Response to The Notion of “Rights”: Origins and Relations to Duties

Sep 22, 2003

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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…

ICESCR

Sep 17, 2003

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INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Professor Nadya Nedelsky reaction essays prepared by students HM, CH, AP Response to ICESCR

CEDAW

Sep 15, 2003

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INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Professor Nadya Nedelsky Readig Review prepared by students Group 5: AG, EO, RR

Historical Remarks

Sep 12, 2003

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Reading Review INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Nadya Nedelsky JH, RN, NE

Customary Law and Treaties

Sep 10, 2003

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INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Nadya Nedelsky JP, SP, AM. Group 3

International Law

Sep 8, 2003

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INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Professor Nadya Nedelsky reaction essays prepared by students IC. Group 2

World briefs

Sep 5, 2003

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INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Professor Nadya Nedelsky reaction essays prepared by students AM, NA

[Audun Solli] analytic and synthetic

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Audun Solli: An analytic judgement is for Kant a statement in which no new information or knowledge is contained or presented in the predicated that didn’t already exist in the concept of the subject, like “all mothers are women”. Synthetic judgements, on the other hand, add some information in the predicate that didn’t exist in…

[Sherali Tareen] Burke/tree

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Sherali Tareen: The supernatural, literary connotations of words, and the distinction between the two concepts seem to be the main main focus for Burke. For instance, he discusses the non-verbal nature of trees that is entirely unrelated to the object of living thing “tree” itself. (1) However, the distinction between “the Word” and “words” remain…

[Aaron Hubbard] Descartes/God/Kant (?)

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Aaron Hubbard: (…) Descartes grapples with those concepts that arise only with leisure. He questions that which he can really know, that which he can discern from the real, and concludes nothing other than that he thinks. His problems with sun on p.118 arise from the definition on the sign by its relation with other…

[Lindsay Gosis] individuality

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