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OLIVIER DE SCHUTTER: My name is Olivier De Schutter,
and I teach international human rights at the University of Louvain.
Welcome to the course on International Protection of Human Rights.
And it will be looking at the emergence of human rights in international law,
and the significance of this movement.
Now, of course, human rights are not new.
They have developed since 1945, when human rights were first
becoming a subject of international concern.
But the past 25 years have witnessed a very significant expansion
of the role of human rights in international relations.
And we will be looking at this movement, a movement
in which economic and social rights, such as the right
to health, the right to education, the right to housing, the right to food,
have gradually converged with the more classical civil and physical rights,
such as freedom of religion, freedom of expression, the protection
from arbitrary detention, to form a set of guarantees
that individuals may claim against states and against non-state actors,
to be protected from various types of abuse or discrimination.
The course will be about these guarantees, the various regimes
of protection of these human rights.
And I would like to very warmly welcome you
to this edition of International Protection of Human Rights.