Lab Exercise 6.13

0.Some might say that human rights have done little for these children. 1.Even though the human rights agreements may seem to have little immediate effect in the short term, they may still have value in the case of child labour.3.Human rights initiatives that bring no direct change in a government’s practices may nonetheless have positive effects by supporting local human rights advocates or delegitimating repressive regimes. Donnelly International Human Rights. page 143. 5.In this case the advocates in Calcutta benefit in a more subtle way.

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0.Some might say that human rights have done little for these children. 1.Even though the human rights agreements may seem to have little immediate effect in the short term, they may still have value in the case of child labour. 2+3. According to Jack Donnelly, the author of International Human Rights, "Human rights initiatives that bring no direct change in a government’s practices may nonetheless have positive effects by supporting local human rights advocates or delegitimating repressive regimes." (Donnelly 143) 4. In other words, human rights can be protected in indirect ways instead of through contacting with the local government. 5. In this case, the positive outcome is that the child labor the advocates in Calcutta benefit in a more subtle way, by being able to claim the legitimacy of supporting international human rights. If the Indian government chooses to disregard this source of legitimacy, they threaten their own citizens that are informed by human rights advocates.