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QOTW How do you or would you go about claiming your human rights? The basic definition of human rights can be explained as the social constructs that are situated within historical, political, and social frameworks. “Human rights are universal, equal, and inalienable”. The best way to support human rights is to recognize that we are all human beings with needs, and everyone has a right to these needs. The best way I claim my rights is by keeping myself well informed of my rights and always ensuring I am respecting other people’s rights. We are all human, and everyone deserves to be treated that way. Through collective action, many individual rights are exercised and/or enjoyed. Discussion Questions:
Discussion – Falcón and Green • Thinking about Green’s discussion of Canada and the UNDRIP and Falcón’s constellation approach, what role does state power continue to have when it comes to the rights of Indigenous people? Human rights as a practice is a discourse with material implications such as power. According to green, the UNDRIP is a new form of power and according to this Act, the Canadian government must create an action plan that addresses injustices, fights prejudice, and ends all kinds of violence and discrimination against Indigenous people after consulting and working with Indigenous peoples. Only because this act has power, is actions finally being taken. According to Falcón’s constellation approach She states that there are three constellations of human rights that function at the UN level: social praxis, which represents how social actors mediate between the first two constellations through their practice of human rights; dominant understandings, which are connected to the Western-influenced legal apparatus of laws and courts; and counter public approaches, which embrace alternative epistemologies based on feminist and antiracist politics. Additionally, she contends that the social praxis constellation has been a particularly innovative, fruitful, and dynamic space for the placing of human rights (p. 816). All of these levels exert some sort of power, and power is the only way changes occur. • Do you think that Falcón’s constellations of human rights can operate beyond the UN, for example, within domestic legal institutions? I believe it can operate beyond the UN. Falcón argues that an imaginative and active discourse on human rights may be found in the social praxis constellation because an understanding of human rights transcends the categories of civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights. Domestic legal institutions is a matter delt with by the government and due to the theory transcending through civil/political/social/cultural and economic rights (which are all issues that also face the government) they can be handled in a similar manner.
• Falcón and Green have different views of the UNDRIP as an example of the decolonization of human rights. Why do you think that is? What’s your opinion? I believe they have different opinions because they are looking at it from different perspectives. The way one interprets something changes how they view and value it. My opinion is that if the UNDRIP does what it is supposed to and protects the indigenous people’s rights than I think it is fantastic. However, my opinion entirely depends on the outcome. Reflection:
During week 8 I learned about Human rights, we discussed, how human rights are put into actions, enforcing human rights, why states sign and ratify human rights treaties as well as who can claim human rights. The term “Human rights” according to Brysk 2002, “Human rights are a collection of universal protections against unjustified compulsion, usually carried out by governmental agents, that are meant to preserve human dignity”. What stood out to me the most through this lecture was Green (2014) examination on Canada’s controversial relation to UNDRIP and Indigenous peoples’ human rights. Green argued that Indigenous peoples' human rights are inalienable; to try to do otherwise would be to violate their rights. Human and Indigenous rights are inseparable (p. 21). She also briefly states that “Historical and ongoing dehumanization of Indigenous peoples in the context of colonial relations”. It saddens me that indigenous people are still having this much trouble in today’s society.” I had no idea dehumanization was still a prominent issue for indigenous people, with all the advances made our society needs to do more to become a more inclusive world. We are all human, and we all deserve to be treated that way. I really enjoyed this lecture, and I found it very educational, it saddens me that dehumanization is still an issue.
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