For this Assignment, you reflect on your
perception of human rights and its role in public administration. You also
examine the potential implications that human rights literature might have for
public administrators.

The Assignment (3–4 pages in APA format): Your Assignment should include the
following:

· 
A detailed and
objective description of the human rights issues presented in this week’s
readings

· 
An explanation of the
nature of the issue(s) and its significance to you as a public administrator

· 
An explanation of what
the readings meant to you in the context of your feelings, values, knowledge,
and experience

· 
An explanation of the
implications these readings might have for public administrators

· 
A summary of one of
the following:

o 
What you learned about
yourself as a public administrator based on your reaction to the readings

o 
What you learned about
global governance from examining these readings

o 
Why this knowledge is
important to you as a developing public administrator

o 
How you might apply
this knowledge in your future practice

Resources

  Benjamin, D. O.
(2010). Rethinking nonintervention: The challenge of the UN charter and
protecting the dispossessed. Public Integrity, 12(3), 201–218.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

 De Schutter, O.
(2012). The role of human rights in shaping international regulatory regimes. Social
Research, 79(4), 785–818.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Glazer, S. (2004).
Stopping genocide. CQ Researcher, 14(29), 685–708. 
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

Twiss, S. B. (2011).
Global ethics and human rights: A reflection. Journal of Religious
Ethics, 39(2), 204–222. 
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

United Nations.
(n.d-b). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Retrieved
November 19, 2013, from http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

Optional Resource

 Nickel, J. (2012).
Human rights. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of
philosophy (Summer 2013 ed.). Retrieved from http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2013/entries/rights-human/