Human Rights in 2066 | William Schabas | TEDxZurich
Human rights may be based upon values that have ancient origins…. but this does not mean they are static and never changing. If we can track progress in the past, can we also imagine it in the future? Shabas challenges us to think about what our human rights will look like in half a century.
Professor William A. Schabas is professor of international law at Middlesex University in London. He is also professor of international human law and human rights at Leiden University, emeritus professor of human rights law at the National University of Ireland Galway and honorary chairman of the Irish Centre for Human Rights.
Professor Schabas holds BA and MA degrees in history from the University of Toronto and LLB, LLM and LLD degrees from the University of Montreal, as well as several honorary doctorates. He is the author of more than twenty books dealing in whole or in part with international human rights law and international criminal law, including the European Convention on Human Rights (Oxford 2015), The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The travaux préparatoires (Cambridge 2013), Unimaginable Atrocities (Oxford, 2012), The International Criminal Court: A Commentary on the Rome Statute (Oxford, 2010), Introduction to the International Criminal Court (Cambridge, 2011).
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"The moral arch of the universe is long, but it tends towards justice." Thank you Professor Schabas.
humanity doesn't need any more walls, it needs bridges...Thanks a lot Sir.
@apollokaruga1415
6 жыл бұрын
I literally found myself clapping to this. Haha
@klawony
3 жыл бұрын
the problem is not every human has the same morals.......let them come via bridges bringing slaves, drugs and crime
United Nations only talk about human rights but not take any step for those who were violating it.
"Humanity needs bridges, not walls"
"Freedom of movement throughout the earth" - 💯
Please add real Closed Captions to make this accessible like other TED Talks!
Thanks you sir. Well spoken. But why do we move towards law? Can anyone answer me that question I will appreciate it.
2019(Gregorian) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:
2022(G) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:
TWA Flight 800, What really happened, July 17, 1996?
beautiful words need to be followed with courageous deeds. only a very few are standing and speaking out against the systematic massacres of a jailed population. innocent civilian population is being punished arbitrarily and indiscriminately day after day. today, europe and the united states, are committing the worst violations of human rights. today, europe and the united states cannot give a lesson on human rights to any one.
great speak
Yes, he's talking about the united states constitution. Apparently it's the law for the whole world now? I don't think it's actually the law of the rest of the world yet.
human rigts yes but what about other creatures like computers etc there are peopl that are mute but computer u can mute at will what kind of rights is that
@larrycarter1192
2 жыл бұрын
I don't think you can disconnect any computer from the internet anymore. It's not a built in off switch anymore. I don't own one myself.
Too old video 4 years ago upload some newest video
it's sad to have this scientific observation nowday about the human right…...A long road stilll remains to our human history development to achieve a more closest respectfull human right…….
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Except wealth inequality is falling, not rising. There's a reason this guy is in TEDx and Hans Rosling went to TED. That's also ignoring the fact that crime rates are skyrocketing in regions that have taken in more refugees, although those issues seem to stem more from governments being unwilling to police these regions, such as the 'no-go zones' where non-Islamic people are not allowed. That segregation is against human rights, and the governments of the EU and Australia being unwilling to enforce those human rights is what is leading to the rise in far-right and far-left ideologies. The far-right gets an easy scapegoat to insult Islamic and middle-eastern people, inciting fear, while the far-left can point to both new immigrants who are poor and to the far-right, also inciting fear. If you are going to try and tell the world how to be, you'd better make sure you checked your facts.
@andy81andy007
3 жыл бұрын
So your answer is to protect low crime areas and leave everyone else to the poverty and degradation that allows high crime rates through low level public services and a general willingness to ignore the problem as long as it's not in your area?
too much human
moi!
@MrPyrhel
5 жыл бұрын
no moi xd
THIS PROF. IS ONE FOR THE MONEY! Prof Schabas is not rich like most profs. Alas he is old but decided to sell his principles for money perhaps to leave some for his children. But what about the dying Rohingya children? At the ICJ trial, his conscience made his face and body language look like a man facing a trial. His good TED talk failed him here miserably!
Equality of Economic rights, what?? This man sounds absurd.
@johnnyappleseed4930
8 ай бұрын
I knew I wasn't the only one.
How can scientology talk for human right? So criminal organisation!!! You are true without destroying any life?
Human right: to not liv with barn yard animals. Crime to own liv with dog/animals inside city limits, get the dog's out!
O human who lives somewhere on EARTH. we are 85 hostages of a crazy dictator. is humanity dead be our voice of IRAN people.
I will sign whatever you tell me but please, out of human charity, stop mistreating me. I have not done anything wrong to you, please respect me.
I can't believe YOU stood FOR Myanmar
@thetwaiezm6649
4 жыл бұрын
U should learn more the real situation of Rakhine State in Myanmar.
@abidbahar7508
4 жыл бұрын
@@thetwaiezm6649 What is the real situation in Rakhine? Genocide is genocide!!! Prof Shahbas is one for the money. True, he is not rich like most profs. Alas he is old but decided to sell his principles for money to leave some for his children. But what about the dying Rohingya children?