Competing Visions of Human Rights: TRB

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Day One

Advanced Study Guide—Introduction and Part I

1. What are the origins of the idea that the power of governments is not absolute?

The origins of the idea that the power of governments is

not absolute is the Nuremberg Trials.

2. What were the important principles established by the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals?

certain acts are so horrendous that

they should be considered crimes wherever
they are committed, even if laws against the
acts did not exist in the country where the
acts took place.

3. Explain the different rights emphasized by the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

The rights emphasized by the United States are the civil and
political. The rights emphasized by the Soviet Union are the social,
economical, and the cultural.

4. Decolonization was a process led by oppressed people to claim their human rights. Explain whether you agree or
disagree.

agree. I agree because the people decolonized had their human rights taken
away and they were trying to get them back. america was colonized before
the revaluation. taxation without representation

5. Explain the following quote from the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights: “All human rights are
universal, indivisible and interdependent....”

This quote is saying that human rights are basic freedoms and
rights that cannot be separated from anyone but we are
dependent on others to not take them from us.
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TRBCompeting Visions of Human Rights:

8 Questions for U.S. Policy
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The Development of International Human Rights

Instructions: Use your reading to fill in the chart below. Do not fill in the shaded boxes.
Why was this event important to
international human rights? What were the shortcomings?

proclamation of civil & only extended to white,

U.S. & French Revolutions political rights wealthy men

extended universal rights

to all men, not just white
Haitian Constitution

protected victims of not much of a follow

armed conflicts and set up through- every nation only
Geneva Conventions international humanitarian cared about their own
laws citizens

first time forum set up to no authority to instill their

League of Nations discuss rights of human beliefs
citizens

Roosevelt's four freedoms freedoms do not stop

Allies’ Justification for (freedom from want, fear, holocaust until WELL INTO
World War II of expression/speech, the war
religion)

the German atrocities were

Nuremburg Trials finally punished for their
Nazi war crimes

human rights are a part all colonial nations are

of charter and completely ignored
UN Charter important to charter

first multinational different cultures have different

beliefs It was impossible for one
Universal Declaration of agreement- basis for document to encompass all of the
Human Rights following covenants world's diverse ideas

What were the long-term

Why was this event important to
consequences for international
international human rights?
human rights?

stalled all progress of formed two separate sides,

Cold War human rights both sides ignored their own
violations

more nations- more voices propelled struggles for self

Decolonization rule to developing war,
spread human rights
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Vienna World Conference on human rights flowing,
Human Rights affirmed international
commitment to human rights
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