Defining Human Rights: Harper Lecture with Mark Philip Bradley
Our consensus on what constitutes a human right dates back only to the 1940s, when the global human rights imagination first began to take shape. In this lecture, Mark Philip Bradley chronicles the complex histories that have formed our contemporary understanding of human rights and illustrates how that understanding has become a force behind international and local politics. In particular, he addresses the Indian Supreme Court’s decision last December to uphold Section 377, the colonial-era law that criminalizes sexual activities “against the order of nature,” most notably, gay sex.
Mark Philip Bradley is the Bernadotte E. Schmitt Professor of International History in the Department of History and the College, chair of the Committee on International Relations, and faculty director of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago. He is the author and coeditor of several books, including the forthcoming “The United States and the Global Human Rights Imagination” and “Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn.”
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Thanks, Philip. What a rich and intriguing speech! You made it easier to understand by the way you approach it. (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
I think we need to raise the bar and provide a higher standard of human rights. We need to use engineering to create sustainable systems that nourish the life of all people!
In the last 50 years in America we have had around 30 milliin people in poverty at all times except for the year 2000 and around that time era where we dropped to 10 million people in poverty.
Human rights. I love this subject.
informative cases.....
Very good topic, hope World can be more peaceful, human rights abuses us is intentionally after my experience in Europe, I read lot of book about torture, I wasn’t believe I come one of the people with torture expressing. So what you’re saying is truth.
Where's the definition?
The 1970s does have freedom inspiration
Human right is to not liv with barn yard animals. Crime to own liv with dog/animals inside city limits, get the dog's out!