Human Rights Protection Assignment | Online Assignment

Should the Developed world be responsible for human rights protection in the developing world?

Should the Developed world be responsible for human rights protection in the developing world?

 

1. Do a literature search to develop your perception of the debate.
2. Outline the debate. This means demonstrating the various different perspectives that academics have taken when seeking to analyse this question.
3. Identify three key authors whose work is frequently cited in articles that address the debate.
4. Briefly summarise the contributions these key authors are making to the debate. Make sure to paraphrase (putting others’ words/ideas into your own words), rather than use direct quotations, as it will save you words, which you will need for the analysis.
5. Critically analyse the question in light of the authors’ views. Weigh each other against each other. What contributions do they make to the debate, what impediments do they present/reflect?
6. Provide a short comment on where you position yourself in relation to the general debate and the key authors.
7. Remember, the essay is an assessment of your literature review skills. It is not about answering the question, it is about being able to show that you know what the different aspects of the debate are about and then being able to position specific authors’ positions within the debate.
8. Your reflections are designed to develop critical reading skills and help you learn how to identify what the nuances of the author’s arguments are.
9. Now take this knowledge you have gained from the reflections and apply it more broadly to the essay. You are not to replicate what is in the reflections, but rather to build upon it.

 

Purpose of the Essay

 

• To demonstrate your critical analysis of the literature
• To demonstrate knowledge of the wider debate and situate
• positions within this wider context
• To show how tensions within human rights concepts affects the
• practice of promoting and protecting human rights
• To show that you are theoretically aware of the various, and often
• conflicted, aspects of these debates and how these tensions affect
• human rights practice

 

 

 

 

 

 

The aim of an essay is:

• NOT to come down on one side or the other, but rather to present
• the theoretical arguments that are at odds with each other, or that

• NOT to come down on one side or the other, but rather to present
• the theoretical arguments that are at odds with each other, or that

• NOT to come down on one side or the other, but rather to present

the theoretical arguments that are at odds with each other, or that

agree with each other

 

• AND to critically assess how these positions fit within the larger
• context of the debate. What contribution to the debate do these
• positions make? What is left out? What can these two positions tell

• AND to critically assess how these positions fit within the larger

context of the debate. What contribution to the debate do these

positions make? What is left out? What can these two positions tell

• us about the tensions inherent in human rights concepts/practice?

 

Structure of the Essay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Analyse rather than Describe

• You are not simply being asked to describe the content of the
• required readings or to summarise their arguments. You are being
• asked to analyse the arguments (strengths/weaknesses) in relation
• to the contribution they make to the debate and how these limits or
• You are not simply being asked to describe the content of the

required readings or to summarise their arguments. You are being asked to analyse the arguments (strengths/weaknesses) in relation

to the contribution they make to the debate and how these limits or

advances human rights protection.

• You are demonstrating that you understand what the author(s)
• aims are, how they have accomplished these aims, and what
• contribution their approach makes to the debate. If you feel they
• have hindered the debate then you can say that too; provide

 

• You are demonstrating that you understand what the author(s)

aims are, how they have accomplished these aims, and what

contribution their approach makes to the debate. If you feel they

have hindered the debate then you can say that too; provide

reasons why you feel this way.

 

• Additional sources should be used to supplement and flesh-out

your analysis, rather than be the central foci of your essay. The

required readings are the central foci.

 

• You are demonstrating an overall understanding of the question

(debate) via a focused analysis of the required readings and

additional sources.

 

Guiding Questions

• When conducting your critical analysis,think about:
• What argument(s) form the debate?
• What contribution do these arguments make to the debate?
• How do they relate to one another?
• Who is making them? Are there factions? Do most people agree?
• How do these arguments help us understand the tensions within
• human rights practice?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Organisation of Lit review, options:

• Chronological
• Advancements
• Geographical
• Questions