REGNRSG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Soft Law, United Nations Human Rights Council, Equality Of Outcome
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From rules to rights: human rights law is not primarily based on explicit rules that guide individual conduct but on interests that should shape the law and orient human and institutional behaviour. Provisional definition: rights that every person has by virtue of merely existing and that aim to secure for such a person certain benefits that are of fundamental importance to any human being. Natural law background: human rights can trace their origin to the natural law tradition. Decline under the influence of a scientific world view. Internationalization: until the aftermath of the second world war the legal protection of human rights was seen exclusively as a domestic affair; that changed and human dignity became a universal concern and human rights were linked to peace. Three significant regional systems of human rights protection: the european system of human rights protection, operating out of the council of.
