Concept Of Human Rights

The notion of human rights is relatively a new concept in human history. Article 1 of Declaration of Human Rights ''All beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights’’ states a universal request for fundamental human rights of individuals to be upheld by state and non-state actors in any circumstances. Owing it to the history of war and violence, particularly to the atrocities caused by Second World War, the concept and understanding of human rights have eventually become embodied in universal consciousness, actively promoted and theoretically guaranteed by numerous international documents and international human rights law. Still, the undoubtable commitment and responsibility to implement human rights standards is the one of the state

First, we will argue that state’s behaviour primarily depends on the level of perceived threat to its political power. Second, knowing that perceived threat might increase in the presence of particular political and economic factors, we choose to examine the impact of political regime and poor economic development on human rights’ violation by state. Third, we will discuss how domestic and international support or indifference might be interpreted by a state as an approval for undertaking repressive measures. And finally, we will point out, one of the greatest challenges of a state in contemporary history, the recognition of terrorist suspects’ fundamental human rights that often come under

Protection and advancement of human rights in developing countries: Luxuries or necessities? (Mazhar Siraj 304 page) Economic factors such as poor economic development of a country is often related to high record of human rights violations. It can be argued that poverty indeed weakens the government and exposes it to a real threat of public discontent. As mentioned before, state’s main responsibility is the welfare of its citizens, which also includes protection of economic rights. Therefore, if economic rights are violated in the sense of food scarcity, expensive education, inaccessible healthcare system and high unemployment rate, government will lose the support of its voters and face threat to its power. Confronted with poor economy and public pressure, it is more demanding and challenging for a government to engage with ‘’democratic culture of negotiation, bargaining, tolerance and compromise’’ (Rummel 1997: 101) than to suppress revolts and public demands by brute force and