全球背景下的人权

这门密集课程提供了人权的多学科介绍, 批判性地审视人权政治, 它们的争议性和不均衡的全球执行. 在, 通过一系列专题案例研究，重点关注实际问题和有争议的人权政治. 该课程批判性地考察了人权概念的历史和发展以及支撑这些概念的哲学, 以及当前国际人权法框架和当前人权辩论之间的关系, 政治权力和社会不公. Topics include human rights and international relations; humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect; postcolonial and feminist critiques of human rights; the inter-section of human rights with gender, 性, ethnicity and class; the relationship between human and civil rights; women's, children's and indigenous peoples' rights; and the practical implementation and enforcement of human rights.