Exploring Anti-Poverty Technology and Human Rights Advocacy
Delve into the intersection of anti-poverty technology, social justice, and human rights through lectures, discussions, and historical reflections. Dive deep into the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) articles, assess their implementation in your country, and ponder the importance of equality, justice, and engineering in upholding human rights. Engage in thought-provoking questions on the priority of rights, duties of individuals, and the quest for reducing inequality in technological capacity.
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Anti-Poverty Technology: Social Justice and Human Rights https://hecourse.engineering.osu.edu Lecture 12.1
Discussion: Suffering Privilege Dignity (worthy of respect) Respect (deep admiration for ) 2
Human rights, history: The Story of Human Rights (9:30) 3 https://pixabay.com/en/photos/human%20rights/
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream Speech: (17:28). https://www.flickr.com/photos /jimforest/12219184015 Changes since 1963? Does activism matter? Rosa Parks https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosaparks.jpg https://www.flickr.com/ph otos/ofsmallthings/8288453263 4
Discussion: Rights, Part 2 Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.... Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Article 23: (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Article 29: Everyone has duties to the community... 5
Questions: For Articles 1, 3, 5, 23, and 29: 1. Your country: In your country of origin, are these articles of the UDHR met in all cases? Are you concerned or not? 2. Priority of rights: Which are the most important of these human rights? 3. Rights and duties: Whose duty it is to make sure a person's rights are met for these rights? 6
Inequality: For Articles 1, 3, 5, 23, and 29: 1. To have justice, must all of these human rights be met to the same level for all persons (i.e., perfect equality)? 2. If one right that you consider to be unimportant is not met for someone else, is there justice? 3. Who judges what is an adequate level of achievement of another's rights? 4. Who judges if there is an acceptable level of inequality? 7
Engineering and Human Rights Technological capacity is ability or power to create, modify, apply, experience (use), or understand technology. Inequality of technological capacity: Are you rich in this sense! How? Poverty in technological capacity? A technological capacity trap? Humanitarian Engineering Goal: Reduce inequality of technological capacity. 8
