RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS & CHALLENGES TO HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS & CHALLENGES TO HUMAN RIGHTS LAW Religious Traditions

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of Religious Traditions & Challenges to Human Rights Law in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on the Religious traditions and its relation with human rights law. The research also analyzes many aspects of religious traditions and tries to gauge its effect on human rights law. Finally the research describes various factors which are responsible for topic and tries to describe the overall effect of religious traditions on human rights law. The international law of human rights poses considerable challenges for religious traditions. In this paper I consider some of these challenges, particularly that raised by the idea of women's human rights. I suggest that the way this challenge is met will be critical for the development.

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Table of Contentiii

Chapter 1: Introduction1

Background of the study1

Rationale2

Purpose of the study2

Problem Statement2

Research Questions2

Chapter 2: Literature Overview4

International Human Rights Law4

Scope of human rights Law4

Challenges of Human Rights Law5

Chapter 3: Methodology25

Research Design25

Literature Search25

Chapter 4: Discussion26

Chapter 5: Conclusion28

Reference30

Chapter 1: Introduction



Background of the study

The development of a scheme of human privileges law designated days from after World War II and the origin of the United Nations in 1945. However, the concept that persons had some pattern of rudimentary privileges is much older. Indeed finds of privileges converse can be discovered in very vintage Greek and Roman thought. For demonstration, when Sophocles' Antigone defied Creon's order not to entomb her slain male sibling, invoking the higher regulations of the gods that needed his burial, she utilised a rights- founded argument (John, 2006). In China, the government of the Chin dynasty, founded 2200 years before, functioned with a conviction in the equitable remedy of all, irrespective of caste. The third 100 years BC inscriptions of the Indian emporer, Ashoka, emphasized tolerance and liberty as cantered standards of a good society.

The rhetoric of flexibility is present furthermore in the writings of the Buddha, who clarified nirvana as flexibility from the miseries of life accomplished by the extinction of the phenomenal self which is the source of yearn and craving. Later, the custom of natural regulation as developed in Europe by St Thomas Aquinas and other ones had human privileges components, especially the concept that there was a higher regulation overhead that of governmental authority (John, 2006). And in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the writings of John Locke, Montesquieu and Rousseau, converted into activity by French and American revolutions, encouraged the concept that humans were born with certain inalienable privileges and that violation of these privileges by government supported the government's overthrow.

Rationale

This study highlights many issues related to Religious Traditions & Challenges to Human Rights Law and gives a broad analysis of challenges to human rights law.

Purpose of the study

The main purpose of this study is to show that how religious traditions create challenges to human rights law ...