The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History

October 28, 2009 - Samuel Moyn, Professor of History at Columbia University, presented "The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History" the keynote address to "The New History of International Law" lecture series. Sponsored by the Law & History Society and the Center for International & Comparative Law.

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• Human Rights
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[dingdongpingpong69]

@Navidnak true yo

[dingdongpingpong69]

@Rx4pabulum no that's not the point of the lecture at all.

[dingdongpingpong69]

yo where the question period at?

[Mike10four]

There are manmade-rights and unalienable-Rights. A deeper understanding of unalienable-Rights materializes through the prism of science (see my channel video).

[Rx4pabulum]

"Today, some of the key figures in the contemporary human-rights crusading brand of journalism, such as Samantha Power, Roy Gutman and Christiane Amanpour, simply tend to ignore Western-backed violence in their fiery polemics alerting the world to ‘war crimes’ and ‘human rights abuse’. As always, all rights are not equal and whether or not the world will pay attention to your plight depends on your relationship to powerful states."

[Rx4pabulum]

"Yet mass murder committed by the US and its allies tends either not to be regarded as such or to be deemed as necessary for the greater good, as part of the fight against terrorism, the suppression of women, and so on."

[Rx4pabulum]

The fundamental point is that all killings are not treated as equal. We might assume that, in an era in which human rights are meant to be triumphant and the rule of law is supposedly being spread by supranational institutions such as the International Criminal Court, all ‘crimes against humanity’ will be judged equally.

[Rx4pabulum]

“In this era of human rights and international criminal courts, not all ‘crimes against humanity’ are judged equally”

[Navidnak]

Sam Moyne has a rare talent: to take dense theory and intellectual history and make it digestible for the non- specialist without losing a single degree of its rigor.