Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Subject "Human Rights"
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The Cold War and Indigenous People
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-18)The second half of the twentieth century saw dramatic state movements and expansions around the world into Indigenous people’s territories. These state expansions incorporated more of the earth than any time in the past ... -
Health Care as a Human Right: A Rawlsian Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)This thesis looks at fundamental disagreements about the role of society in the delivery of health care services. In particular, it develops an argument for viewing health care as a human right, and in doing so, argues ... -
Individual Human Rights: Reconciling Rights with Value Pluralism
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-01)Abstract: This thesis examines the foundations of individual human rights. The general thought that informs the discussion is that rights and values are two different kinds of moral discourse. Hence, any attempt to simply ... -
National Interests and International Consensus: The Case for a Human Rights Approach to Canadian Foreign Policy
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-02)The inclusion of human rights in Canadian foreign policy is typically rationalized as corresponding to the fundamental Canadian value of respect for human rights; however, Canada’s limited appeals to human rights, couched ... -
Scripting Resistance: Governance through Theatre of the Oppressed
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-21)Theatre of the oppressed (TO) emerged out of a rights-repressive context to challenge the way cultural institutions are created and reproduced, and to enact alternative social and political relationships. More than a form ...