Warning the Public Health emergency is quickly becoming a human rights crisis how many limitations are people willing to accept to fight a threat like coronavirus. I. Canot roth welcome to conflict zone. Thanks for having me. There are very immediate needs amid this coronavirus pandemic hundreds of thousands have already died a qana means have been hit hard many people are losing their jobs some are even trying to figure out how to put food on the table in these extraordinary times how do you put human rights at the top of the agenda. Well i think its important sara to note that human rights allow certain extraordinary governmental powers in time of a genuine public emergency or crisis like were facing now so you know nobody objects from a human rights perspective to the efforts to limit our trouble to inforce social distancing to do the things that are necessary and proportionate to our Public Health needs but when autocrats say oh we need you does violate your human rights left and r
Landmark cases, cspans special series produced with the constitution center, explore and the human story and constitutional dramas behind 12 Supreme Court decisions. Number 759, Petitioner Versus arizona. Number 18, roe against wade. Quite often in many of our famous decisions were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate are very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. Welcome to landmark cases. Our series of looking at the 12 most important cases in Supreme Courts history. We will learn more about the people in the issues behind them. Tonight, lochner v. New york, 1905. It is one of the controversial cases of the Supreme Court, and in fact the story of a baker from new york whose case gave rise to an era that defined Supreme Court cases for the next 30 years. Let me introduce you to our two guests who would tell us more about this important case
And sewer pipes overhead and there were suers in the ground and sometimes were wood, rats ran freely and so did roaches. Bakers worked exceedingly long hours and exceedingly difficult work. It wasnt as difficult as a lot of work during that time, its true, but the title of my first chapter, by the way is not my grandma used to bake. They were handling 100 to 200 pounds of sacks of flour and its hard work and it was dirty and filthy and difficult work for long hours. But it wasnt just that it was difficult conditions for the bakers. There was also the Public Health was endangered by the conditions that these people were working in because the bread wasnt very sanitary. What was also happening in the country that people were beginning to look with Public Health and public safety. Well, i think this is a really good time after that clip to talk about the bake shop act and what the legislature of new york did to address the conditions that you so there were so well described in the video.
Pandemic the u. S. Begins a process of withdrawing from the World Health Organization accusing it of badly handling the pandemic and an arbitrary killing a u. N. Investigators says a u. S. Drone strike that killed a raid in general got some silly money was unlawful. Brazils president test test said positive for corona virus off to months of dismissing the illness as a little flu shot so narrow has repeatedly downplayed the threat from the virus defying social distancing measures and opposing knocked down even as brazilians deal with the regions worse outbreak a latin america tendency in human reports. To World Leaders have defied 19 like brazils jade bullshit novel. For months the president tempted fate and turned to doctors. He scorned calls to respect social distancing he seemed to relish defying even his own advisors always pressing the flesh and rarely using a face mask many members of his cabinet had become infected even his wifes grandmother some joked hed made a pact with the de
Of our come out he calls himself ataturk father of the turks and catapults turkey into the modern age couldnt go in and one of his greatest achievements was making women visible. He knows no mercy for himself or for others im not of the tasia i want to rule by capturing the hearts of the people not by breaking them a controversial hero both loved and hated is present day turkey still divided by the turks revolution. The 1st world war the Ottoman Empire allies itself with the german empire and austria hungary against france russia and Great Britain one of modern historys most brutal battles takes place all turkeys mediterranean coast allied warships attempt to pass through the dardanelles straits and reach istanbul but they fail this gives rise to a new allied strategy and an opportunity for most of our kemal ataturk. The allied forces attacked the peninsula with infantry sparking a static battle that lasts for months. The young officer. Is in command of an entire section of the front.