Human Rights : Issues and Concepts

Contents: Preface. 1. History of human rights. 2. Islamic ethics and human rights. 3. Social changes under Islam. 4. Divine right of kings. 5. Magna Carta. 6. Crown and parliament Recognition Acts. 7. Amnesty international Economic and political freedom. 8. Human rights first. 9. European Convention on Human Rights. 10. Freedom of expression in India. 11. Religious violence in India. 12. Anti-Christian violence in India. 13. International justice and the United Nations. Index.

Human rights are ‘basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled. The doctrine of human rights aims to identify the necessary positive and negative prerequisites for a universal minimal standard of justice, tolerance and human dignity that can be considered the public moral norms owed by and to individuals by the mere virtue of their humanity. Such prerequisites can exist as shared norms of actual human moralities, as justified moral norms or moral rights supported by strong reasons, as legal rights at a national level, or as a legal right within international law.