ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 6

Politics of human rights at the United Nations, A special reference to human rights non-governmental organizations

  • Author:
  • Dileep Kumar Maurya
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • Page Number: 25 to 33

Doctoral Research Fellow, (JRF), Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Online published on 11 July, 2014.

Abstract

Why do powerful states use International organization as tool to be fulfilled their self-interest? A product of long philosophical and historical tradition, in its various forms Realism is based on assumption that individuals are generally power seeking and act in rational way to protect their own interest but on what ground human rights regime stands at the major international organizations such as the United Nations (UN). This Literature explains politics of human rights at the UN in the era of globalization with reference to human rights Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). By now arguments the United Nations (UN) was established in 1945 to prevent such catastrophe in the future, and as a response to these terrific atrocities and sufferings, the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ (UDHR), was adopted in 1948, which abides all nations but the origin of NGOs explores new works for the UN. The central concern of this paper is to examine, what types of institutional frameworks has the UN to prevent human rights violations. The Neo- Liberal Institutionalist argues that International organizations push states away from war and promote peace, whereas the process of globalization has stressed on the implementation of human rights in the lights of global economic and cultural rights. Overall, this work tries to explore the role of UN in human rights issue-areas and providing a democratic space for human rights NGOs in the era of globalization. This research will use both primary and secondary, sources of data and adopt inductive methods to analyze the subject of the research.

Keywords

Globalization, Human Rights, Non-Governmental Organizations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations