shaggers to show the success of the left in its march through our education system here is a list of subjects that my daughter was asked to choose from to write an Essay..

1Are the American or French Revolutions precursors to contemporary human
rights? If so, why is the Haitian Revolution not included?
2 How do you explain the “cascading” of rights during the French revolution .
3 What were the human rights implications of the Atlantic slave trade and its
eventual abolition?
4 Explain what Karl Marx meant when he distinguished between ‘political’ and
‘human’ emancipation
5 What are the socialist contributions to human rights? How did industrialization
limit or expand the scope of human rights?
6what ways did the World Wars and the demise of colonialism mark a new
phase in the evolution of human rights?
7 Explain the capacity of Human Rights NGOs in pushing governments towards
greater respect for human rights.
8Human rights has gone global by going local, imbedding itself in the soil of
cultures and worldviews independent of the West, in order to sustain ordinary
people’s struggles against unjust states and oppressive social practices.” In
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what ways does Roland Burke’s book Decolonization and the Evolution of
International Human Rights support or cast doubt on this claim? With respect
to human rights, is globalization just a euphemism for Westernization?
10 What was the relationship between human rights ideas and decolonisation?
11The LGBT movement has been criticised as a ‘single-issue’ movement (.i.e
gay focused). Critique this statement in relation to the challenges the LGBT
rights movement has faced since the 1970s.
12Does US policy after 9/11 show the weakness of the human rights regime in
constraining powerful states?