ABSTRACT
A critical scrutiny into the problem of human rights would truly conduce to establishing the instances of replacing the humanitarian for the political aspect of the human-rights issue. Such approach would contribute also to finding the appropriate ways and means for a general augmentation of human rights as well as for their protection. The concept of universal human rights derives from the natural-law theory. This mainly philosophical doctrine impacted the legal acts of the American and French revolutions of the late 18th century. Human rights are based on the concept of property in its philosophical sense. John Locke defined the complex notion of property to include life, liberty and estate. Parallel to the ever growing variety of rights is the expanding circle of those who are entitled to possess such rights. It is the extension of human rights to every person on Earth that largely determines their general or universal character.
