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Unit 2: Human Rights (Codification, Protection, and Monitoring Human…
Unit 2: Human Rights
Codification, Protection, and Monitoring Human Rights
Protection and Enforcement of Human Rights at Different Levels
High Commissioner on Human Rights
: To protect and promote human rights. (
https://www.escr-net.org/resources/human-rights-enforcement-mechanisms-united-nations
)
Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
(CESCR): "Monitor state parties fulfillment of their obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights" (
https://www.escr-net.org/resources/human-rights-enforcement-mechanisms-united-nations
)
Monitoring Human Rights Agreements
UNICEF
"UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. And we never give up."
(
https://www.unicef.org/what-we-do
)
Dominican Republic
: Health & Survival, Protection, Education, Childhood, Social Policies (
https://www.unicef.org/dominicanrepublic/
)
Human Rights Laws and Treaties
Right to free education: 149 constitutions
Freedom of expression: 192 constitutions
Right to bear arms: 7 constitutions
DR Constitution
: "TITLE II. CHAPTER I. SECTION I. ARTICLE 39. RIGHT TO EQUALITY: All people are born free and equal before the law, receive the same protection and treatment from institutions, authorities, and other people and enjoy the same rights liberties and opportunities, without any discrimination for reasons of gender, color, age, disability, nationality, family ties, language, religions, political or philosophical opinion, social or personal condition." (
https://www.constituteproject.org/search?lang=en&key=equalgr11&status=in_force&status=is_draft
)
Practice of Human Rights
Claims of Human Rights
Justice
Liberty
Equality
Essential rights to respect every individual and their dignity.
Violations of Human Rights
India's New Citizenship Law
Offers amnesty to non-Muslim illegal immigrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The 64-year-old Indian Citizenship law prohibits illegal migrants from becoming Indian citizens. "Critics say that if it is genuinely aimed at protecting minorities, the bill should have have included Muslim religious minorities who have faced persecution in their own countries" (
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50670393
)
Child Soldiers
Child Migrants on US/Mexico border
