International Bill of Human Rights and general causes of population displacements
Recommended readings:International Bill of Human Rights. Geneva: UN, 1994 (The International Bill of HumanRights:www.unhchr.ch/html/menu6/2/fs2.htm);Gil Loescher, Beyond Charity: InternationalCooperation and Global Refugee Crisis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993: 3-54.Suggested Readings:Otunnu, “Uganda as a Regional Actor in the Zairian War,” in Adelman and Rao. eds., War and Peacein Zaire/Congo. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2004: 1-82; O. Otunnu, “Refugee Movements fromthe Sudan”, Refuge, 13, 8 (1994): 1-20.Documentaries on youtube:The Story of Human RightsHuman Rights in Two MinutesWhat are Human Rights?UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Full Audobook:Political Repression, Forced Disappearances and the Struggle for Human Rights and Freedom inContemporary Mexico:Peru: Human Rights Abuses and Political Repression:BBC: Update on Reports of Aid for Political Repression in Ethiopia.Political Repression in MoscowInside Story—The Rohingya: A humanitarian CrisisSurveillance and Repression of Muslim minorities: Xinjiang and BeyondReligious Persecution Around the World:Partition: The Day India Burned (1):Partition: The Day India Burned (2):Al Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe 1948:Tibetan Refugee Documentary:Syrian Conflict: Why is Syria at war, nine years on?Syria News 2013: Refugees cross into uncertainty:BBC news – Syrian Refugees: women in Jordan: Sexually exploitedSouth Sudan civil war causes Africa’s worst refugee crisisLearning Objectives:By the end of the readings and lecture, you will be able to:-Identify the preamble, Articles 1-6, 9, 12-20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.-Identify three examples of violations of human rights that contribute to forced migration.-Identify examples of three human rights that are violated by states and the federal governmentin the USA.-Identify two problems with the enforcement of human rights.-Identify two examples of religious persecution that have contributed to forced migration.-Identify two examples of political repression and religious persecution that have contributed toforced migration.-Identify two examples of state formation that have contributed to forced migration.-Identify two examples of population displacements generated by the Cold War.-Identify two examples of civil wars that have contributed to forced migration.Reaction Paper:Describe and discuss two major causes of forced migration.
REACTION PAPER REQUIREMENTS
4-5 PAGES excluding the bibliography) Every paragraph of your reaction paper musthave at least a source. The lecture, recommended reading and documentaries are your mainsources for your paper. Please remember to provide a bibliography or works cited at the end ofthe paper.A reaction paper, like a class participation paper, is your response to the lecture, assigned reading(s)and at least one assigned documentary on Youtube. The reaction paper requires you to acquireimportant information about the reading(s), the lecture and documentary before providing andsupporting your opinion on the subject under investigation/discussion.
