"As a form of international law, international human rights law is primarily made up of treaties, agreements between sovereign states intended to have binding legal effect between the parties that have agreed to them."
Human rights law focuses on the protection and promotion of individual rights and freedoms.
International Human Rights Law: Covers the main international instruments and institutions focused on protecting human rights, including the UN system, regional human rights mechanisms, and international criminal law.
National Human Rights Law: Focuses on how human rights are protected at the national level, including the relationship between international and national law, constitutional provisions, and the role of domestic courts.
Civil and Political Rights: Covers the basic rights and freedoms that protect individuals from government abuses of power, including the rights to life, liberty, and security of the person, freedom of opinion and expression, and the right to participate in government.
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Focuses on the basic rights necessary for individuals to live a dignified life, including the right to work, the right to adequate housing, the right to education, and the right to health.
Intersectionality and Human Rights: Examines the ways that different social identities intersect in relation to human rights, including race, gender, sexuality, and disability.
Human Rights Advocacy and Activism: Explores the role of human rights defenders, NGOs, and social movements in promoting and protecting human rights, including strategies for effective advocacy and using the media to raise awareness.
"International human rights law is primarily made up of treaties, agreements between sovereign states intended to have binding legal effect between the parties that have agreed to them; and customary international law."
"Other international human rights instruments, while not legally binding, contribute to the implementation, understanding and development of international human rights law and have been recognized as a source of political obligation."
"International human rights law, which governs the conduct of a state towards its people in peacetime, is traditionally seen as distinct from international humanitarian law which governs the conduct of a state during armed conflict."
"The two branches of law are complementary and in some ways overlap."
"A more systemic perspective explains that international humanitarian law represents a function of international human rights law."
"It includes general norms that apply to everyone at all time as well as specialized norms which apply to certain situations such as armed conflict between both state and military occupation."
"Groups of people including refugees (e.g. the 1951 Refugee Convention), children (the Convention on the Rights of the Child), and prisoners of war (the 1949 Third Geneva Convention)." Note: Questions 9-20 have not been provided as they require subjective interpretation of the paragraph.