Links to the Treaties and Other Laws

On this page I will place links to the legal materials you need to figure out human rights (laws, norms, rules, standards, goals)

Conceptual guide: ask yourselves what is the relationship, if any, between morality, law, and justice.

Try to figure out a structure of rules: a typology of rules.
What is the difference between law and politics? A legal right and a political right?

Magna Carta
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw1cc1929/25/9/contents

Declaration of Independence
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1776-1785/the-final-text-of-the-declaration-of-independence-july-4-1776.php

U.S. Constitution
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution<br />Is the bill of rights binding law?
a) on the federal government?
b) on the states?
c) on private persons?

Declaration of rights of man:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
Are declarations legally binding? Or do the merely set out goals – of law? Of politics?

The UN Right System
Understand that the UN system is meant to help the poorer countries reach the same standards of the richer ones and it is easier to see how it functions.

UDHR
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/unrights.asp
ICCPR
https://treaties.un.org/pages/viewdetails.aspx?chapter=4&src=treaty&mtdsg_no=iv-4&lang=en
ICESCR
http://www.un-documents.net/icescr.htm
CEDAW
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/
CERD
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CERD.aspx

Germany

http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/

EU Law
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/collection/eu-law/treaties-force.html?locale=en

European Convention of Human Rights
http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/Treaties/Html/005.htmhttp://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/Treaties/Html/005.htm

Civil Rights Act of 1964
http://finduslaw.com/civil-rights-act-1964-cra-title-vii-equal-employment-opportunities-42-us-code-chapter-21
Equality Act
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/apple-equality-act/