Conceptual Framework for Human Rights

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Conceptual Framework for Human Rights

• Needs Wants
• Satisfaction Deprivation
• Rights Discretion
• Justice Injustice
• Individual Collective
• Solidarity Individualization
• Power Lack of Power
• Responsibility Non-Responsibility
• Conflict Resolution
• Autonomy Control
• Analyze specific problem situations known to you,
  and place them in the conceptual framework
  suggested. What points are they at on the
  spectrum in each dimension?

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Issues in Human Rights

• Recognition
• What human rights are at issue in this situation?
• What are the possible means/goals for changing
  this situation?
• Are these means/goals consistent with
  national/international declarations?
• Are the goals/means permitted by national laws?
• Are they permitted but limited in reality by
  attitudes/resource consideration?
• Analysis
• Meso and Macro Level Analysis
• Prioritizing
• Process of goal setting in a specific context
• Developing strategies taking into account target
  groups at different levels
• Coherent strategy for responding to the situation
  from a human rights perspective