Human rights & international relations

Introduction

The case study is focusing on the human rights and international law with general and specific view related to the United States. The theme of the paper is to explain and focus on human rights and internal law. The paper also focuses on the international human rights law. The major players in this paper are the government, United Nations and the international and national law agencies. This topic is important to the international relations because it focuses on the international law and human rights. It also entails the economic globalization. The laws and regulations of globalization and international aspects guide the states and nations on how to act and what guidelines to follow.

Human rights law has traditionally assumed a distinction between public and private spheres of human activity and focused on the first of these to the detriment of those who suffer human rights abuses in the private sphere. Recent years have seen increased recognition within IHRL of the need to increase human rights accountability for corporations, international organizations, multilateral development banks, multinational peacekeeping operations, and individuals. Compliance mechanisms in IHRL often consist of a regularized collection of self-reported data, with review by an international committee. The number of human rights treaties continues to increase, but the focus has shifted to the need to work for better compliance with existing human rights treaties rather than their continued proliferation (Sen 2004, 315).

Human rights

The conviction that the balance of power between international and world society was changing was a central theme in Human rights. Territorial sovereignty and non - intervention remained fundamental to the pluralist order, but they now existed alongside notable advances in cosmopolitan law.

The growing importance of world law represented a partial convergence of the rights that people have as the citizens of particular political communities and the rights that are said to be invested in them as human beings. The universal human rights culture was a key indicator of how the economic and strategic interweaving of societies had promoted calls for greater transnational solidarity. The whole development was testimony to the impact of non-governmental organizations on the criteria for determining legitimate statehood, and on the standards for assessing the legitimacy of international society (Goodhart 2003, 935).

The United States, he observed, had prioritized immediate strategic considerations in its relations with Iran, only to witness the regime's collapse in 1979 and the decline of its own moral authority and regional influence. Too often, strategic necessity was confused with the merely convenient or the advantageous. The effect was to assume that the scope for ethical deliberation and moral choice was less than was actually the case.

International Human Rights Law

International human rights law (IHRL) is concerned primarily with the protection of individuals from threats to their human rights stemming from the state. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, together with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic and Social Rights together make up what is informally referred to as the International Bill ...