Human Rights in 2066 | William Schabas | TEDxZurich

Human rights may be based upon values that have ancient origins…. but this does not mean they are static and never changing. If we can track progress in the past, can we also imagine it in the future? Shabas challenges us to think about what our human rights will look like in half a century.

Professor William A. Schabas is professor of international law at Middlesex University in London. He is also professor of international human law and human rights at Leiden University, emeritus professor of human rights law at the National University of Ireland Galway and honorary chairman of the Irish Centre for Human Rights.

Professor Schabas holds BA and MA degrees in history from the University of Toronto and LLB, LLM and LLD degrees from the University of Montreal, as well as several honorary doctorates. He is the author of more than twenty books dealing in whole or in part with international human rights law and international criminal law, including the European Convention on Human Rights (Oxford 2015), The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The travaux préparatoires (Cambridge 2013), Unimaginable Atrocities (Oxford, 2012), The International Criminal Court: A Commentary on the Rome Statute (Oxford, 2010), Introduction to the International Criminal Court (Cambridge, 2011).

[ruthpumarejo]

"The moral arch of the universe is long, but it tends towards justice." Thank you Professor Schabas.

[jadziyadax]

"Freedom of movement throughout the earth" - 💯

[swirrichristina]

humanity doesn't need any more walls, it needs bridges...Thanks a lot Sir.

[mariyanantony]

Constitution of human attitude is human rights and duties called legal remedies

[mariyanantony]

Human attitude is really the right of a man it may be negative or positive. So nature of rights are mixed.

[platero]

beautiful words need to be followed with courageous deeds.
only a very few are standing and speaking out against the systematic massacres of a jailed population.
innocent civilian population is being punished arbitrarily and indiscriminately day after day.
today, europe and the united states, are committing the worst violations of human rights.
today, europe and the united states cannot give a lesson on human rights to any one.

[williamwells]

TWA Flight 800, What really happened, July 17, 1996?

[shaktipradhan]

United Nations only talk about human rights but not take any step for those who were violating it.

[farahsalsabila]

"Humanity needs bridges, not walls"

[charlesbarkley]

Thanks you sir. Well spoken. But why do we move towards law? Can anyone answer me that question I will appreciate it.

[themanwnoname]

2024(Gregorian) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:

[themanwnoname]

2022(G) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:

[themanwnoname]

2019(Gregorian) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:

[larrycarter]

Yes, he's talking about the united states constitution. Apparently it's the law for the whole world now? I don't think it's actually the law of the rest of the world yet.

[liewkahmeng]

Too old video 4 years ago upload some newest video

[aasyjepale]

human rigts yes but what about other creatures like computers etc there are peopl that are mute but computer u can mute at will what kind of rights is that

[abidbahar]

THIS PROF. IS ONE FOR THE MONEY!
Prof Schabas is not rich like most profs. Alas he is old but decided to sell his principles for money perhaps to leave some for his children. But what about the dying Rohingya children? At the ICJ trial, his conscience made his face and body language look like a man facing a trial. His good TED talk failed him here miserably!

[anthonysmith]

Equality of Economic rights, what?? This man sounds absurd.

[dillpickkle]

Except wealth inequality is falling, not rising. There's a reason this guy is in TEDx and Hans Rosling went to TED. That's also ignoring the fact that crime rates are skyrocketing in regions that have taken in more refugees, although those issues seem to stem more from governments being unwilling to police these regions, such as the 'no-go zones' where non-Islamic people are not allowed. That segregation is against human rights, and the governments of the EU and Australia being unwilling to enforce those human rights is what is leading to the rise in far-right and far-left ideologies. The far-right gets an easy scapegoat to insult Islamic and middle-eastern people, inciting fear, while the far-left can point to both new immigrants who are poor and to the far-right, also inciting fear.

If you are going to try and tell the world how to be, you'd better make sure you checked your facts.

[artistsingerwriterproducer]

How can scientology talk for human right? So criminal organisation!!! You are true without destroying any life?