Connections to Segment #2 Readings

The Donnelly and Howard reading list different types of regimes and how each regime respects or denies human rights. The article states that, though minimal states, communist countries, and traditional societies believe that they treat their people well, they all fall short of granting their people full human rights. The only regime that respects people's social, civil, political, and economic human rights is a liberal regime. We realized that refugees often flee from minimal states, communist countries, and traditional societies -such as North Korea, Burma, or Cuba- to liberal states, such as the U.S.

The Fein article discussed war crimes and how they are human rights violations. We discussed the fact that many refugees and displaced people are victims or war crimes.