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Human Rights: At Home and Abroad

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States11.164
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2015English
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This course provides a rigorous and critical introduction to the foundation, structure and operation of the international human rights movement, as it has evolved through the years and as it impacts the United States. The course introduces students to the key theoretical debates in the field including the historical origin and character of the modern idea of human rights, the debate between universality and cultural relativism, between civil and human rights, between individual and community…

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