International Human Rights Law
- A Primer
Henrietta Newton Martin
(B.Com, LLB (Gold Medallist), LLM (Gold Medallist), MMS-HR) etc)
Published in 2015 BR Publishers
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Preface
Welcome onboard the first edition of this ‘easy -to –understand’ introductory series on human rights. This book is one of its kind , the first edition, first part of the five part series, on International Human Rights Law, which is carefully crafted to bring the subject of human rights to the level of understanding of first time readers, the students of human rights, lay readers,lawyers, NGO’s especially when they need a quick runthrough on the relevant aspects of the subject, such as the meaning, concept, nature, origin and development of human rights, that may have to be imbibed, for an examination or for general understanding or for any particular purpose,within a quick span of time.This book is the first concise edition of the five part series on the subject. Human right is an ever expanding subject with the development of the society and the advancement of the world at large , thereby encompassing newer forms of rights with wrapped-in duties on the part of the state, the government, the human rights organizations on one hand and duties incumbent on individuals as responsible beings owing their allegiance to the society, the society itself , and the world at large on the other .The subject being vast in itself there has been an endeavor to put forth the concept of human rights in the most perspicuous manner.
Author
Chapter 1 Introduction to Human Rights
Chapter 2- Meaning Nature and Concept
Chapter 3 Why Human Rights? Need and Importance
Chapter 4 Classification of Human Rights
Chapter 5 Problems in implementation of
‘Human Rights’
Chapter 6 Origin and Development of
Human Rights
Chapter 7 Human Rights Today
-Conclusion
XX Bibliography
“What a chimera then is a man! What a novelty! What a monster! What a chaos, what a contradiction what a prodigy! Judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depository of truth ,a sink of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe, remarked Blaise Pascal in his literary work “Pensee” more than three and half centuries ago.
Rightly our vanishing centuries bears witness to the decadence of the human community.
Before embarking on the subject in details it is deemed proper to make certain preparatory observations to set the right perspective.
What do we mean by Human Rights?
We as human beings have certain rights which are inviolable basic and inalienable. Man is inherent in nature. His nature is conducive to physical, moral, social and spiritual warfare.
When we talk of ‘Rights’, we must remember that to enjoy a ‘right’ we owe a ‘duty’.
As rightly jurists and legal theoretical experts like Salmond and Hohfield confirm that every right has a correlative duty.
Having thus set the perspective let us move on to study the meaning, need of human rights and how it evolved, in the further chapters of this book.