Research 35 ILIC2021

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW:
Aspirations and Challenges to Global Justice and Peace

Doi:10.23918/ilic2021.35

Keywords: International Human Rights Law, human dignity, Legality, Legitimacy, Global Justice, Global Peace.

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PROCEEDINGS OF 6th INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ISSUES CONFERENCE (ILIC2021)

Faculty of Law/ Tishk International University

Date: 25th November 2021

Venue: Kurdistan Region Erbil

ISBN:978-9922-9036-7-5

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Neville D’Cunha
Associate Professor of International Relations and Diplomacy
TISHK International University-Erbil, Iraq
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Abstract: This article addresses the relationship between International Human Rights Law and humanity’s struggle for global justice and peace. Many of the problems we encounter – especially human rights abuses – are the gravest threat to humanity’s aspirations for global justice and peace. To realize just societies that show suitable solidarity with fellow human beings and strive for peaceful and fair global relationships, under the shadow of human rights abuses constitutes one of the main challenges of our age. The phrase “human rights” may be used in an abstract and philosophical sense, either as denoting a special category of moral claim that all humans may invoke or, more pragmatically, as the manifestation of these claims in positive law, for example, as constitutional guarantees to hold Governments accountable under national legal processes. While the first understanding of the phrase may be referred to as “human rights”, the second is described herein as “human rights law” In this paper we try to better understand the world around us in the context of how juridification of international human rights law is exemplified by the unequivocal acceptance that all rights are justiciable.

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