Terminology
The definition of Human Rights.
"Recognized, legitimate claims upon his or her society to specific freedoms and other goods or benefits…society is morally, politically, and legally obligated to respect, ensure, and relieve"
This Document, signed in 1948, was the foundation of modern human rights.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
The Four Pillars of the UDHR.
What are the four qualities a state must recognize to ensure all those within its borders are afforded their intrinsic rights?
This event led to a conversation about human rights and international cooperation to secure them.
What is WWII/the Holocaust?
The activist who petitioned the UN in 1947 to denounce U.S. racial discrimination as a human rights issue.
Who was W.E.B. Duboise in "An Appeal to the World"?
The legal guarantee that the state will not deprive a person of their freedoms without fair procedures, such as the right to appeal.
What is the right to Due Process?
These two documents created a clear and enforceable framework for the rights prescribed in the UDHR.
What is the International Covenant on civil and political rights and the International Covenant on economic, social, and cultural rights?
One of the Four Pillars: the Idea that all people, regardless of race, gender, etc., are to be given the same liberties.
What is Equality?
The founding of this organization marked the beginning of an era of internationalism.
What is the United Nations?
The 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case, in which police inaction on a restraining order was found not to violate due process.
What is Castle Rock v. Gonzales?
Baseline requirements of food, water, and medical care from the ICSECR that the state must meet.
What are the Minimum Core Obligations?
This English document secured the right to due process and the right to own property.
What is the Magna Carta?
One of the Four Pillars: The right to engage with society, including voting and property ownership.
What is Liberty?
The 1955 meeting of Asian and African states promoted anti-colonial solidarity and the principle of self-determination.
What is the Bandung Conference?
The practice of denying or limiting financial services to neighborhoods based on racial composition.
What is Redlining?
The principle that ESC rights can be achieved gradually, but states must show genuine steps toward full realization.
What is Progressive Realization?
One of the earliest documents outlining the basic rights of freedom of movement and religious practice.
What is the Cyrus Cylinder?
One of the four foundational pillars: The belief that all People have worth derived from their humanity.
What is Dignity?
The genocide during WWI that was one of the first times “crimes against humanity” was invoked.
What was the Armenian Genocide?
The U.S. housing practice in the mid-20th century where real estate agents profited by selling homes in white neighborhoods to Black families, fueling “white flight” and re-segregation.
What is Block Busting?
The principle that the enjoyment of Economic, Civil, Political, or cultural rights requires adherence to them all.
What is the indivisibility of Rights?
This French document declared that the rights of man were natural, Universal, and inalienable.
What is the Declaration of the Man and of the Citizen?
One of the Four Pillars: A shared sense of community, interdependence, and shared responsibility.
The 1993 World Conference reaffirmed the universality and indivisibility of human rights after the Cold War.
What is the Vienna Conference?
This metaphor frames human rights discourse as Eurocentric, casting states as “savages,” individuals as “victims,” and the West as “saviors.”
What is Mutua's "savages, victims, saviors" Metaphor?