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LW6006 Human Rights 2020/21 Semester 2Workshop Preparation:
Workshop 1: Introduction
Please prepare answers to every activity ahead of the session.
We will take answers from the whole class on some of the tasks and so do
ensure that you have answers ready to share with the group for each of these
questions.
Reading:
Please read either chapter 1 of Howard Davies’ Human Rights Law Directions or
Pater Halstead’s Unlocking Human Rights or (details contained within the Talis
module reading list on Moodle). Both of these texts can be found as reference copies
in the Library. As an alternative, you could read the chapter on Human Rights from
any good Constitutional and Administrative Law textbook.
I have uploaded an extract from Peter Halstead’s Key Facts: Human Rights to
Moodle, which you may find useful in terms of providing a concise introduction. You
will also find a detailed human rights timeline on Moodle.
Some of the questions require you to reflect and to draw on your own knowledge of
human rights, significant historical events and current affairs, rather than looking to a
textbook for a correct answer.
At the start of the session, we will discuss:
Module Programme:
Assessment:
Problem question and an essay question.
3000 words
Activity 1a Introduction to human rights in an international context.
What aspects of human rights do you think are depicted here? (Do not be restricted
to merely thinking about the Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights
which you know from your LLB Studies but think about fundamental rights in more
general terms.)
Art 5: right to liberty and Article 2: right to life Protocol 1, Art 1: right to
security Social rights: Right to food, peaceful enjoyment of your
art 3: freedom from torture health and welfare property
, and inhuman and degrading Right to a safe and
treatment sustainable environment
Art 4: freedom from slavery Right to natural resources
and forced labour Environmental justice.
Expression and religion
HR is about fair procedures
and rules; by using military, it
provides a loophole to
prevent this.
Protocol 13, Article 1: Art 9: freedom of thought, Article 8: respect for your
Abolition of the death penalty belief and religion private and family life, home
Art 6: right to a fair trial and correspondence
Art 7: no punishment Freedom from discrimination
without law Gender equality - Equal pay
for equal work
Activity 1b In what order would you place them on terms of importance, and why?
1 4
2 2
3 1
4 3
5 6
6
*all equally important. There is no right answer as it is subjective.
Activity 2 What do you understand is meant by 'human rights'? First let us
consider what we think the essential characteristics of human rights to be.
Read the following definitions / explanations and then write down a better one (either
of your own or taken from your research) in the spare box at the bottom of the table.
We will take suggestions from every student, so please do be sure to have
your own (or researched) definition ready.
The basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include
the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before
the law.
Human rights are those basic standards without which people cannot live in dignity.
To violate someone’s human rights is to treat that person as though he or she were
not a human being. To advocate human rights is to demand that the human dignity of
all people be respected.
There are many grounds other than universality on which human rights may be and
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