This critical reading reflection asks you to integrate your evolving thinking about human rights as not just abstract principles but crucial guidelines for governing human interactions and protections against oppression. You should select one of these prompts for your reading reflection, incorporating at least two pieces of evidence from the readings (the assigned readings or your chosen selection) to support your argument. You may use any readings that we have used in the course so far to inform your response.
1. Because human rights are universal, the global governance of human rights protections and enforcement against violations must be absolute; regardless of cultural, political, or historic context, human beings are human beings.
2. Social workers’ commitment to anti-oppressive practice requires us to resist the tendency for global human rights governance to veer into unacceptable imposition of the values of dominant systems and nations on others’ sovereignty and self-determination; because the global institutions that enforce human rights are themselves flawed, social workers must ‘opt out’ of these structures.
Then, incorporate the iterative process of critical self-reflection into your learning. Specifically, consider 1 way your own identity/experiences shape your thinking about global human rights governance, as well as 1 thing that surprised you about your reaction to the readings and your learning about human rights systems and structures.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/12/21/rethinking-asylum-warming-planet
https://www.unhcr.org/us/about-unhcr/overview/1951-refugee-convention
https://dcs-spotify.megaphone.fm/BUR8344166097.mp3?key=a086cddf3551749fd440164a3f32eb5f&request_event_id=962cb216-2fd3-41cb-a643-2fe021c53ed5&timetoken=1728326905_E7FA3152C6D1EC5586C7BFEF344A38A2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivdlkExrZLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc_VNvD9B3c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0vd-8pAl_g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBQ-IoHfimQ