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Crimes against humanity |
International crimes including murder enslavement ethnic cleansing and torture committed against civilians as codified in the Rome statute |
International crimes |
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Cultural relativism |
The belief that human rights ethics and morality are determined by culture and history and therefore not universally the same |
Human rights determined by culture |
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First generation human rights |
Political or civil rights of citizens that prevent governmental Authority from interfering with private individuals or Civil Society (negative rights) |
Civil rights |
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Genocide |
The systematic killing or harming of a group of people based on National Religious ethnic or racial characteristics with the intention of destroying the group |
Killing |
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International Bill of Rights |
The collective name for the universal Declaration of Human Rights the international Covenant on civil and political rights and the international Covenant on ethnic social and cultural rights |
Universal declaration of rights |
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Second generation human rights |
Social and economic rights of states are obligated to provide their citizenry including the rights to medical care jobs and housing (positive rights) |
Social and economic rights |
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Soft law |
Non binding Norms of State Behavior; may or may not eventually become harder obligatory law |
Non-binding norms |
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Third generation human rights |
Collective rights of groups including the rights of ethnic or indigenous minorities and designated special group such as women and children and the rights to democracy and development among others |
Collective rights of minorities |
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Demographic transition |
The situation in which increasing levels of economic development lead to Falling death rates followed by Falling birth rates |
Development = pop decrease |
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Epistemic community |
Transnational communities of experts and Technical Specialists who share a set of beliefs and a way to approach problems |
Experts with same beliefs |
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Global governance |
Structures and processes that enable actors to coordinate interdependent needs and interests in the absence of the unifying political Authority |
Structures enable actors to coordinate needs in absence |
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Malthusian dilemma |
The situation that population growth rates will increase faster than agricultural productivity leading to food shortages; named after Thomas Malthus |
High pop w/ low resources |
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Narco trafficking |
The transportation of large quantities of illegal narcotics like heroin or cocaine across state borders |
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Negative externalities |
Economies term for costly (harmful) unintended consequences of Exchange, in political terms, a negative externality of a failed government might be refugees; and counterinsurgency, a negative externality for an incumbent government fighting insurgents might be increased terrorist group recruitment as result of deliberately or inadvertently harming non-combatants in disputed areas |
Unintended consequences |
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Net crime |
Criminal use of the internet; may include such diverse activities as use of email or chat to bully a peer, manipulation of computer code to steal another's identity, child pornography, or theft of intellectual property |
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