International Protection of Human Rights - Veena Soni - Bog

To discover the nature and importance of human rights, with the application of a basic approach we may conclude that human rights provide for individual freedom and liberty in relation to state (which may exercise public power over individuals, but also in relation to other individuals, who may also be capable of violation of these liberties. In some cases human rights not only provide for these freedoms against the above mentioned, but at the same time may mean a legal possibility to the individual to force them to refrain from doing something against him ¿ these human rights are often called justifiable human rights.The basic concept of individuals bearing liberty against the state is not new, it has always been present during the development of societies and mankind. Of course this has not been recognized as ¿human rights¿ in today¿s meaning, rather than a society-organizing principle: given social groups has duties and liberties in a society. We can find this basic phenomenon in ancient tribes, archaic societies and feudal societies as well.