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Human Rights at Home and Abroad

2-0-10 units. HASS-S · Undergraduate

See description under subject 11.164[J] .

Fall 2015 · Human Rights: At Home and Abroad

Topics

  • What are human rights? History, philosophy and character of the rights discourse
  • Key conceptual debates: Universality v. cultural relativism, public v. private, relativity of rights, liberal origins, individual v. community rights, civil v. human rights
  • Sovereignty and self-determination?: The impact of North-South divisions, the West v. Rest
  • Human rights at home: The struggle to enforce human rights in the U.S.
  • Security v. human rights: Torture, assassinations and the War on Terror
  • Economic development, globalization and poverty
  • Gender, equality, and sexual minorities
  • Ethnic, religious and racial violence and group rights
  • Forcible Intervention versus sovereignty

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Prerequisites & course information

Same subject as 11.164[J] Subject meets with 11.497 Prereq: Permission of instructor Acad Year 2027-2028: Not offered Acad Year 2028-2029: U (Fall) 2-0-10 units. HASS-S

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