ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities afforded social theorists in contributing to the nature of the human rights agenda. Turner argues that institutions, often cause human rights failures, need to be continuously repaired and redesigned, and human rights need to be constantly reviewed in light of misapplication, misappropriation, and failures. The restraints on human rights caused by differential access to material resources and political power had to be taken into account, and structural change was necessary in order to address human rights violations. The organizational structures as generally moral in nature, although ongoing activities do require monitoring and modification if human rights objectives are to be realized. The definition of human rights as claims made by persons in diverse social and cultural systems upon organized power relationships in order to advance equal dignity, and respect for all human beings. The study of organizational power lies at the core of modern-day human rights theory and practice.
