Explain the significance of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg

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Question 1: Explain the significance of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg. Summarize the principles that were established as the foundation for the international law of human rights.

Question 2: Briefly explain the importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Question 3: Distinguish between the type of rights protected in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and type of rights protected in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Political Rights. How do the procedures provided in these two conventions to enforce human rights differ from one another?

Question 4: What is the role of the Human Rights Council in protecting human rights?

Question 5: What is the relationship between international human rights and domestic enforcement of human rights? Discuss the challenge of enforcing international human rights in a world of pluralistic sovereign nation-states.

Assigned Book Readings:

Lippman, M. (2021). Law and society (3rd ed.). SAGE.

Chapter 13. International Human Rights and International Crime