ABSTRACT
The logic of Westphalia suggests that the nation-state is principally what determines whether or not human beings live in dignity and justice. Out of the UN context have come the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights, and on Economic and Social Rights, both of which entered into force in 1976. The international community has in fact articulated many human rights standards since the end of World War II. From the earliest days of the United Nations, its Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) has been the principal body charged with pursuing human rights issues. In recent decades, developing regional systems for the protection of human rights have also promised to move the subject from the realm of political partisanship to that of generally authoritative law. In the broadest sense, the discussion of human rights as a world order concern has focused on the way in which a popular-based legal order develops within any society.
