#beitz

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“This Is What I Would Do” de Michael Beitz (2023) à l'exposition immersive “Super Terram” de l'Espace Voltaire, Paris, mars 2023.

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“Rétro-Eclairé” peinture sur plexiglas d'Axel Void (2023) à travers "Hey ! Get Out of Here !!" de Michael Beitz (2023) à l'exposition immersive “Super Terram” de l'Espace Voltaire, Paris, mars 2023.

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Beitz Practical Rights Approach

Background Memo:

Discussion and implementations of human rights have expanded a lot in recent years. There are a myriad of ways to look at why human rights have emerged and continue to emerge from natural rights, to personal autonomy, to reason giving to practical. In this debate we will be breaking down some of these approaches and debating whether or not they're a good method to approach what human rights are (or ought) to be. I personally, will be discussing Charles Beitz's view of a Practical Approach to thinking about human rights. The points are outlined below:

Main Question:

What is the nature of human rights? (i.e. What does it take for a value or idea to become a human right not what are/aren't genuine human rights)

Main Points:

We should not use philosophical approaches (like natural rights) when answering what human rights are. This is because a philosophical approach constrains what human rights are and explanations for why violations occur

-Natural rights have had important influence on more recent thought about human rights, but it's misleading to think of human rights coming from the same mold/sharing the same features in contemporary thought. The founders of modern human rights considered saying that human rights belong to people by nature-- they decided not to because it would be too narrow of a view, distorting our perceptions of the HR enterprise. (This is my own note, but likely because in the UNDHR, they left room for rights to evolve-- if constrained to natural, we would be limited in rights claims).

Human rights are public principles that are meant to do a certain kind of work in the discourse of global politics-- not just a state of nature or a generic form of society, abstract from reality. They are a public basis of political criticism

This question should be approached through the idea of sui generis-- or the idea that they should be constructed based on what actually happens in practice

He argues for a two-level approach to human rights-- states have a responsibility to protect human rights and if they don't, then international concern and interventions are justified and not just limited to coercive replies

-Responses can include accountability through UN HR monitoring systems, incentives by states and IGOs to motivate policy change, development of legal and economic capabilities and infrastructure to build a state's capacity to satisfy HR norms, Efforts by local NGOs or activists to influence domestic actors and shift beliefs, economic sanctions or humanitarian military intervention, and change in policies of external actors aimed at helping a state satisfy HR (i.e. lifting trade restrictions or sanctions that are contributing to HR violations)

If a state accepts a rights claim then they are obligated to: (1) make it a political priority to protect it, (2) Enact legal and policy instruments to protect the right, and (3) if a state fails to protect the right, then it graduates to the second level of Beitz's approach, meaning international concern.

Domestic Violence Application:

Many people criticized the 1979 Women's Convention because did not include DV protections -> Beitz argues that it should not be a human right because of how contested it is in various cultures -> If the international community intervenes, it can be viewed as paternalistic and intrusive because it's viewed as an attack on social practices-> BUT external local agents (like NGOs or activists) can act as human rights translators and use coercive measure to change local perceptions so it can be elevated to a HR that's protected

Counter-Arguments and Counter-Counter -Arguments:

States' disagreement about how to implement HR counts against the two-level model

-Vast majority of states do agree that human rights violations should be punished, the disagreement often lies in what types of intervention is permissible (disagreement within practice not about) -> this happens because modern HR have not developed as hoped and there's no international judicial system that can enforce rights

The model is too state-centric

-Because human rights practices and discussions are often state-centric! The model is meant to character HR practices as they are not what they ought to be. States are still able to and should punish individuals who violate HR

Can't states always use the paternalism excuse and therefore block emerging rights from being established or interventions on rights violations?

-Likely, yes, but-- as already stated, interventions are not limited to coercive measures. There are a variety of tools in place that can be used in situations like these, especially the work of local NGOs and activists. If we only see coercive measures as the only tool, then has the possibility to create "we vs. they" situation which can further infringe on liberties of people who the right would help, therefore better to defer to "translators" who better understand the culture, what's realistic and move the dial.

-Francesca

[detournementsmineurs]

“How To Imagine Japan” de Michael Beitz (2023) à l'exposition immersive “Super Terram” de l'Espace Voltaire, Paris, mars 2023.

[dorstadt]

Das Erdbeerfeld vom Hof „PLUMEYER“ in Dorstadt (nach der Ortsausgang, Fahrtrichtung Heiningen; vor dem evangelischen Friedhof)

#Dorstadt #Gemeinde #Oderwald #Samtgemeinde #Wolfenbüttel #Plumeyer #Beitz #Erdbeere #Schaufenster #RegionalHeute #RegionalWolfenbüttel #Matzuga

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'Dining Table' by Michael Beitz (2010) "Dining Table is meant to look at the silent tension that often exists between close people and the inability to communicate." -Michael Beitz #MichaelBeitz #Beitz #2010 #DiningTable #sculpture #art #furniture

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