The Human Rights in Global Perspective podcast aims to introduce listeners to the core ideas and central controversies in the study of human rights. Topics covered include the history, law, politics, and philosophy of human rights, debates over which particular human rights individuals ought to be afforded, scepticism about human rights, and real-world human rights controversies and challenges.
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The Human Rights in Global Perspective podcast aims to introduce listeners to the core ideas and central controversies in the study of human rights. Topics covered include the history, law, politics, and philosophy of human rights, debates over which particular human rights individuals ought to be afforded, scepticism about human rights, and real-world human rights controversies and challenges.
Welcome to Human Rights in Global Perspective! In this episode, Lachlan and Nin ask: what are human rights? What, exactly, do we mean when we say that there's a human right to x, or that someone's human right to y has been violated? The episode also features a conversation with Nicholas Southwood and Christian Barry from the Australian National University about their paper 'What is Special About Human Rights?', which focuses upon these questions.
You can find study notes for this episode, here. For student readings, and other resources, you can visit our website, here.
The music in this episode is the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, played by William McColl and the University of Washington Symphony, conducted by Abraham Kaplan. Available here, and used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License.
Human Rights in Global Perspective
The Human Rights in Global Perspective podcast aims to introduce listeners to the core ideas and central controversies in the study of human rights. Topics covered include the history, law, politics, and philosophy of human rights, debates over which particular human rights individuals ought to be afforded, scepticism about human rights, and real-world human rights controversies and challenges.
