History of Human Rights in International Relations - YBAJ205

• Title: History of Human Rights in International Relations
• Guaranteed by: Programme Liberal Arts and Humanities (24-SHVAJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 3
• Hours per week, examination: 0/2, MC [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (20); summer:unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: YMN0HHR
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: Mgr. Selma Muhič Dizdarevič, Ph.D.
• Incompatibility : YMN0HHR
• Is incompatible with: YMN164, YMN0HHR, YBLS019

Annotation

English

From the summer term 2024/2025 the course is taught under the code YBLS019.

Last update: Horáčková Karolína, Bc. (08.01.2025)

Teaching methods

Here, in the SIS, you can find recordings from the covid period. The lectures are not identical to the lectures that are taught in person. The recordings serve as additional teaching tool.  

You will also find a syllabus in the SIS.

In Moodle you will find syllabus and lecture presentation. 

MS Teams is optional, there you can find lecture presentations and recordings.

Required reading:

Donnelly, J. Universal Human Rights. New York: Cornell University Press. 2003. 290 s. ISBN 0801487765.

Muhič Dizdarevič, S. - Valeš, F. Stínová zpráva 2009/2010: rasizmus a diskriminace v České republice. In: ENAR Shadow Report 2009/2010. (ed.) ENAR. Brusel: European Network Against Racism, 2011,  s. 1-48. Available at: https://www.enar-eu.org/wp-content/uploads/5._czech_rep.pdf 

Muhič Dizdarevič, S. Islamophobia in the Czech Republic: National Report 2018, in: Enes Bayraklı & Farid Hafez, European Islamophobia Report 2018, Istanbul, SETA, 2019, pp. 233-250. Available at: https://setav.org/en/assets/uploads/2019/09/EIR_2018.pdf, p. 233-250

Last update: Muhič Dizdarevič Selma, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.07.2023)

Requirements to the exam

A written test at the end of the course is mandatory for the course completion. 

Attendance for this course is not mandatory.  The guest lectures to be held on 25 November and 9 December 2024 are mandatory, i.e., the presence is recorded and required. 

Any additional information regularly given during lectures must be obtained by attending the lectures or asking for consultation during office hours, not via individual emails. 

Last update: Muhič Dizdarevič Selma, Mgr., Ph.D. (04.09.2024)

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the course. History of the concept of human rights.

2. Human rights and natural rights.

3. Moral vs. legal rights. Legal positivism. Moral relativism and human rights.

4. Generations of human rights.

5. Human rights in non-European traditions.

6. Human rights implementation and post-colonial critique.

7. Human rights in the United Nations. Declaration of human rights.

8. Human rights in international law.

9. Human rights legislation in a regional and continental context.

10. The concept of citizenship and human rights.

11. Human rights treaties by issues: race, gender, age.

12. Role of non-governmental organizations in the promotion of human rights.

13. Concluding remarks and preparation for the test.

Last update: Macková Kristýna, Mgr. (19.12.2022)