Human rights : notion and supposition - an analytical study

Abstract

International human rights and policy community has long sought to establish the full content of human rights that ought to be promoted and protected, while less progress has been made on providing meaningful, valid, and reliable measures of human rights. Advocacy for new standards and greater state participation in the international human rights 'regime' as well as the monitoring and alerting of human rights violations has often times occurred in isolation from measurement efforts and secondary academic analysis, both of which seek to provide standardised methods for representing the variation in human rights protection. This paper illustrates the necessary and inexorable links between human rights school of thoughts and socio-political regime. It demonstrates that background of human rights has been systematised by the international legal and human rights community such that there is now a known core content of human rights susceptible to social scientific using a variety of indicators including the positive and negative dimensions of civil, political, economic, social, cultural, and solidarity rights. The concept however, is still interpreted as being different, according to particular economic, social and cultural society in which they are being defined. That is the core reason why human rights have so far escaped a universally acceptable definition, presenting a problem to international regulations.