THEORIES OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights law is a recent development of not more than seven decades ago,
starting from 1948 when UDHR was adopted by UN. It has rapidly grown to be of
global concern and its enforceability has acquired worldwide approval. However,
the concept of human rights is a point of debate which fertilized the soil for the
emergence of a plethora of theories whose main objective is formulating what
constitutes, or should constitute, human rights and, if we know what, how we can
justify a category of rights that the current political practice points as inviolable.
The major theories in this debate are illustrated in the pdf bellow.
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