What Does It Mean to Understand Human Rights as Essentially ‘Triggers for Intervention’?
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https://doi.org/10.23918/ijsses.v3i3p55Keywords:
Human Rights, Traditional Approach of Human Rights, Moral Rights, Political Theory of Human Rights, Political Function of Human RightsAbstract
Traditional theories of human rights regard human rights to be equivalent to universal moral rights. They also claim that human rights are justified by an appeal to some valuable aspect of human nature. These approaches, however, have been strongly challenged by the political theory of human rights. The latter derived from John Rawls’s conception of human rights in his famous work, Law of Peoples, argues that human rights are not equivalent to our universal moral rights, but are a subset of those rights: they are those rights that once violated lead to an erosion of state sovereignty, thus acting as ‘triggers for intervention’. This article mainly discusses the political conception of human rights to explain this question; what does it mean to understand human rights in the ways that their violations lead to intervention? Furthermore, the article strongly argues that such understanding of human rights is neither accurate nor helpful for reasons that will be mentioned in chapter two.
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