International Human Rights

Catalog description

This course is intended for graduate students and the enthusiasts in international affairs and human rights. It explores the concept of human rights and state responsibilities; the realm of national and international responsibilities; and international human rights as obligations. The course seeks to convey to the student the breadth and depth of the discourse since the end of the Second World War, in particular the transition from declarations about the rights of peoples to the affirmation of criminal responsibility by the international community from the Nuremberg Tribunal and Tokyo Trials to the International Criminal Court at the Hague. All this is placed in the wider context of development, and seeks a balance between the broader discourse of political and economic rights.