Activity 1 - What should we revise?

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Activity Tasks

1. ​Mind-Map - Create a concept-map using Padlet, Mindmup or any other similar mind-mapping tool (or create a sketchnote by hand!). In the middle write ‘How do human rights operate in practice?’.
2. Summarise - Now fill in your mind-map with key information and facts from the contemporary global case studies that you have examined in this unit. Review your notes and summarise using the following headings and events:
   1. Claims on Human Rights - Indigenous people’s rights, international instruments, reasons for violations, role of NGOs, Taiwan and indigenous peoples rights.
   2. Local Violations - Human trafficking and human rights, international instruments, state obligations, definitions, HK laws, promotion and enforcement, reasons for violations in HK, stakeholder perspectives.
   3. National Violations - Gender equality and human rights, international codification, national codifications, state obligations, enforcement and promotion in China, progress towards gender equality, violations of gender equality.
      
   4. Global Violations - Torture and human rights, international codification, Guantanamo Bay and human rights violations, justifications for and against closing Guantanamo Bay, is torture ever justified?

Activity 2 - What was our inquiry?

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Activity Tasks

1. Recall -  Examine the statement of inquiry for this unit again and consider how it applies to what you’ve studied:
   1. Despite frequent violations, Human Rights ensure fairness and equality by protecting the rights and identities of all people.
2. Analyse - With a partner, discuss how this statement of inquiry could be applied to the world today. Consider the following questions:
   1. Connect - How is the statement of inquiry connected to what you have studied?
   2. Extend - Does the statement of inquiry extend your thinking about global politics in any way?
   3. Challenge - What is challenging or confusing about the statement of inquiry? 
3. Evaluate - What are the strengths and weaknesses of the current human rights regime in preventing violations of human rights?
4. Discuss - What could or should be done to strengthen the global human rights regime?

Activity 3 - How might we be assessed?

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Activity Tasks

1. Essay Plan - Try practicing for your end of unit review by essay planning previous questions on this topic. Use this essay mark-scheme to help:
   1. Discuss whether subsequent human rights laws and treaties have strengthened The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) - Nov 2018
   2. Evaluate the means that can be used to protect and enforce human rights in countries that fall short of international standards - May 2018
   3. “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) is no longer relevant for dealing with human rights issues in the 21st century.” To what extent do you agree with this claim? - May 2016
   4. Compare and contrast an institutional approach to the ratification and enforcement of human rights (for example, through the Hague Courts) with non-institutional approaches (for example, through human rights NGOs, such as Amnesty International) - May 2014
      
   5. “A national or regional approach to human rights enforcement is more effective than a global approach.” Discuss - Specimen Paper

Further Reading for Revision

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OBLIGATORY READING

1. Kirsch, M. (2017). Oxford IB Diploma Programme: Global Politics Course Companion, pp. 61-67

RECOMMENDED READING

1. Murphy, R. & Gleek, C. (2016). Pearson Baccalaureate: Global Politics, pp. 38-44

SUPPLEMENTARY READING

1. Heywood, A. (2011), Global Politics, pp. 331-344

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