1. Week 1: Human Rights and the International Body Politic
Created by: Dr. Kay Picart and Jeneen Surrency

2. Guide Questions
1.What are the philosophical, political and economic underpinnings of human rights?
2.How did the current normative framework of international human rights evolve? How was the concept of “human rights” institutionalized in Western political thought?

3. Guide Questions
3.What is the difference between human rights and civil rights?
4.What is the implicit depiction of the “human body” in relation to “human rights” in these texts?

4. Guide Questions
5.How does the image of the individual human body relate to the image of the “body politic” in these texts?