FUNDAMENTAL THEMES ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS

Description

The book deals with sundry conceptual issues connected with and relating to the ancient and modern nomenclature and architecture of international human rights.

Diverse issues and sub-themes are fascinating and masterly interrogated ranging from the history and origin of the concept of human rights; human rights as a derivative of human dignity, universal declaration of human rights as the fountainhead of modern international human rights; definition, content, and attributes of human rights ; the challenge of classification  of human rights; university and cultural relativism; to right to development including a unique proposal exploring the prospects for universal declaration of duties or responsibilities.

The books espouses the thesis that human dignity is the precursor of human rights and that current extreme poverty that ravage most nations of the world is infra dignitatem or beyond dignity and this approximates to violation or abnegation of human rights development.

Development is about freedoms and it is seen as an inalienable right with the discussions on the right to development, show casing it’s inter connections, link, and intersection with human right as a minimum desideratum. This reawakens the consciousness of the national authorities and global community to the fact that development is a right and that global peace and order will remain a mirage unless poverty is reduced by diligent recourse to the salient contents of the Declaration on the right to development 1986. The contents of this book are unique and indispensable in human right discourse at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels of studies. It is an invaluable book and guide for law students and very useful hands on guide for Law Lecturers involved in the demanding task of teaching the all-important course “Human Right” or “International Human Rights.” Judges, researchers, policy makers will find this book useful company.