after 4110; a mid evaluation

reflection after attending a half of 4110
Globalisation, human rights, and social justice.


Here some of my reflection after attending the 4110.

1. idea of Rawls,1971, Amartya Sen,1998, Nussbaum, 2003, comes from american philosophy tradition, called as aristotelian, imagining plays important part in building their theory. they imagine that possibility of human to do good things and elaborating it to the theories about social justice, human rights, and development.

2. as far as i read, many UN agreements are influenced by their school of thoughts. the way they think, and solution derrived.

3. rawl proposed about the theory of justice; equal liberty principle and difference principle. Sen published theory of human development which is implemented to the Human Developent indext by Mahbul Ul haq, from UNDP. Nussbaum works, publises substansial rights; which is more related to ethics, phsicology, and gender equality, she deepens what Sen's works in expanding the capabilities and social choiches.

4. UN declared The rights to Development, 1986, which said that human rights is inalienable from development. ( as usual in many convention, and covenant), government has to take responsibility to promote, enlarge, protect, and ensure the rights of everyone in development process.

5. the link of development with HR can be seen from an approach of development called "RBA" or rights based approach.

6. Rights based approach has two school of thought: human rights instrumen seen universal and implement by international bodies by its strategies. second is. approach that the local and poor people is empowered to reach their rights ( more bottom up).

7. the last is; I do not have the real impact of any regulations, instruments, treaties, and convention to the poor people, and also to the human rights progress. as business as usual. I saw that the condition happens because of :

1. all of the regulation are merely moral and political than a really LAW, there is no enforcement and no one can enforce another to do those regulations. it is just moral binding.

2. the regulation is not directly accepted in the local society or in particular countries, or even it is not implement in national/domestic regulation.

3. We can not see the power relations of countries which take a big role in the human rights progress.

gracias.


saurlin 12.53 AM, November 28, 2007.