ABSTRACT
Analyzing human rights allows to consider the role of individuals and their political choices, how states continue to be a site of rights protection and violation, and to begin to imagine a universal global legal structure. According to one definition, human rights provide "what is minimally necessary to live one's life as a human being". From a globalization perspective, human rights are an example of Anthony Giddens's squeezing. Where local and state governments used to have a monopoly on the definition and protection of rights and freedoms for community members and citizens, a new political structure squeezed onto the scene. Human rights, are not solely political. In human rights, the rights of the other are prioritized, rather than own rights. Wayne Sandholtz observes that humanitarian motives are almost always mixed with other political or strategic goals. The human rights tradition, rather than starting by sorting people, starts by asserting that all people are equal and different.
