Human Rights and Contemporary International Law
Keywords:
Human Rights, International Human Rights Law, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)Abstract
This article explores how human rights have evolved through centuries and became one of the crucial aspect of international law. Basically, the human rights are the individual’s demands for the conditions necessary to fully realize the inherent qualities that nature has given him or her as a human being. Earlier human rights legislation encompasses agreements between nations to uphold the rights and dignity of their citizens but a global consensus arose after the destruction of the Holocaust and World
War II around a revolutionary idea: that everyone on the planet has the right to enjoy certain fundamental freedoms and rights necessary for a life of dignity, simply because they are human, and that the best guarantee of world peace and security is universal respect for those rights, regardless of nationality or relationship to the state. This article also examines important international structures that have been put in place to advance, protect, and uphold human rights on a regional and worldwide
scale. This article also outlines the various important sources of international laws on human rights in which the most crucial one is the International Bill of Human Rights, which contains three documents, that has changed the entire outlook of people for their basic and fundamental human rights.
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