Module 1

What are the key features of international human rights?

Some of you will have taken philosophy or political science courses and studied debating views on the sources, scope and/or content of “rights”. We won’t be repeating those debates here. But when we talk about “international human rights” we do need to define the subject – what then are the key features of such rights?

Watch the video lecture, and then do the exercise following that will help you remember the key points.

Video: What is an “international human right”?

Watch this short video clip that explores the question, “What is an “International Human Right?”

Video transcript (.pdf, 107 kb).

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