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Materials relating to questions 2 and 3
Here, at last, is the video: http://youtu.be/GabKrzTuNGk.
Please check out the following links (some to downloadable PDFs):
We discussed Alasdair MacIntyre, and most especially his famous critique of human rights in After Virtue 
(especially at pp. 68-70).
Alan Gewirth, whose Reason and Morality was singled out by MacIntyre, responded in "Rights and Virtues", Analyse & Kritik 6:1 (28-48), to which MacIntyre replied in "Rights, Practices and Marxism: Reply to Six Critics", Analyse & Kritik 7:2 (234-248, at pp. 234-237), with Gewirth having a final pop in the same issue.
See also Alasdair MacIntyre's more recent engagement with Bill Bowring on human rights in the 2008 book Revolutionary Aristotelianism (or, in its journal form, Analyse & Kritik 30:1), including Bowring's "Misunderstanding MacIntyre on Human Rights" (205-214) and MacIntyre's reply in "What More Needs to Be Said? A Beginning, Although Only a Beginning, at Saying It" (261–281, at pp. 272-273). Two of MacIntyre's other papers that deal specifically with human rights are 
"Are There Any Natural Rights?" and "Community, Law, and the Idiom and Rhetoric of Rights" . His most recent will be delivered here on 18th October, a few hours before our third class. See here for a video (second one down) of a public lecture here in which MacIntyre (despite being ill) argued provocatively for limits on rights. For a comprehensive listing of his publications, see the pages linked from here.
One further philosophical book dealing (in its concluding chapter) more sympathetically with human rights, mentioned in the first class but absent from the printed syllabus, is John R. Searle's Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization, OUP, 2010.
Materials relating to questions 8 and 9
The penultimate draft of what was published in 1949, under the auspices of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, as (download) Human Rights: Comments and Interpretations. For our purposes, the most especially important papers are the two by Jacques Maritain, followed by the two by Richard McKeon, including the anonymous Appendix 2, and Julian Huxley's (anonymous) Appendix 1. Although the typescript is hard to read, many of the other papers are also worth reading.
intro to Les Droits de L''Homme et La Loi Naturelle.docx
Maritain''s introduction to the UNESCO book.doc
klassen 05 essay on JM & HRs Maritain_Studies_21_2005_122-32.pdf
General and other materials
United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library UDHR site.
Columbia University UDHR site.
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights UDHR page.
Universal Human Rights Index of United Nations documents.
United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library, human rights links.
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law research library.
Karel Vasak, "A 30-Year Struggle: The Sustained Efforts to Give Force of Law to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights", UNESCO Courier 30:11, pp. 29 & 32, 1977.
James Nickel's essay on Human Rights in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, The Responsibility to Protect: Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (please note that the link has been changed since the module syllabus ws drawn up, and this is the new and now-correct link), International Development Research Centre, 2001.
Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, resource centre: http://globalr2p.org/resources/index.php
http://globalr2p.org/resources/index.php
University of Pennsylvania Press Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights book series.
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law lectures.
Recordings (videos, mostly) of London Met Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute 2011 seminars.
