ABSTRACT
Human rights would help focus nations on positive plans for their institution; and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights would be the consistent measure for that aspiration. Human rights, in the form of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights are themselves the outcome of a particular history of ideas. The intention of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was to draw a line under the political and legal arrangements which had obtained before the Second World War. The panoptic schema, Foucault argued, was destined to spread throughout the social body and consequently it is 'a great new instrument of government'. Rajagopal has argued that the entire post-war discourse of human rights has developed from a Euro-American elite's reaction to the Nazi Holocaust and not out of the struggle against colonialism and for self-determination.
