POLSC402: Global Justice

5.1: Individuals, Communities, and the Pursuit of Justice

• Review of Constitutional Studies: Will Kymlicka's "Human Rights and Ethnocultural Justice" URL

  Read this article. The renowned scholar Will Kymlicka exposes the shortcomings of a human rights approach grounded exclusively in individualism. He argues that group rights are instrumental for ethnocultural justice; without them, minorities lack protection as minorities. 

• Health and Human Rights: Andrea Boggio et al.'s "Limitations on Human Rights: Are They Justifiable to Reduce the Burden of TB in the Era of MDR- and XDR-TB?" URL

  Read this article, which explores the tensions between individual and collective human rights through an examination of public health policies surrounding drug resistant forms of tuberculosis. Public health is one functional policy area where it is virtually impossible to equally protect the human rights of individuals and groups.