Contemp

• State


  Independent and has sovereignty over its territory
• Nation


  A population having shared culture, history, territory and more
• Sovereignty


  Power to control a state externally (its relationship to other sovereign states) and internally (its relationship to citizens and other governing bodies)
• Politics' Premise


  • There are countries or states that are independent and govern themselves
  • These countries interact with each other through diplomacy
  • There are international organizations, like the UN, that facilitate these interactions
• Global Politics


  Explores fundamental political concepts such as power, equality, sustainability, and peace in a range of contexts and at a variety of levels
• Global Governance


  Governance is the action or the manner of governing. In the contemporary global governance, there is no one organization that various states are accountable to follow and more likely no organization can militarily force a state to follow the global rules
• Sources of Global Governance

  • Sign Treaties
  • International Non-Governmental Organizations
  • Powerful Transnational Corporations
  • United Nations
• The name United Nations, coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was first used in the Declaration by United Nations


  January 1, 1942
• The United Nations officially came into existence, when the Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories

  October 24, 1945
• United Nations adopted a revolutionary new document, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights


  December 10, 1948
• Human Rights were not invented in December 1948. The need for security, dignity and freedom is part of human nature, and the idea that those in power have an obligation to respect and realize these needs has been around for hundreds of years
• Right to Equality


  All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights
• Right to Life, Liberty and Personal Security

  We all have the right to life, and to live in freedom and safety
• Freedom from torture and other ill-treatment


  Nobody shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
• Right to recognition as a person before the law


  We are all entitled to all human rights and we all have the same right to use the law wherever we go
• Right to Privacy


  Privacy enables us to protect our dignity from unjust interference in our lives by states or any other power holders
• Right to Social Order


  We have a right to a social and international order in which we can all enjoy our human rights
• Freedom from interference in these human rights


  Nobody, no government, company, individual or group can take away the rights and freedoms from us
• Human Rights in your Every Day Life

  • Article 25: Right to a standard of living adequate for health and well-being
  • Article 3: Right to life and to live in freedom and safety
  • Article 19: Right to freedom of expression
  • Article 23: Right to work and form or join trade unions
  • Article 12: Right to privacy
  • Article 26: Right to education
• Principles of Human Rights

  • Interdependent and Indivisible: All human rights in the Universal Declaration have equal standing. There is no hierarchy of human rights. The guarantee of one human right facilitates the guarantee of the others. Likewise, the deprivation of one human right often causes the violation of others
  • Inalienable: Human rights are unconditional and do not have to be bought, inherited or earned. Human rights cannot be taken away, renounced or exchanged – no one has the right to deprive another person of their rights or to give up their rights for any reason
  • Universal: All human beings, everywhere in the world, have human rights. While the significance of national, regional and cultural particularities must be kept in mind, it is the duty of all states to promote and protect all human rights. Rights belong to and are to be enjoyed by all human beings without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex or language, religion, political and other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other stature