ABSTRACT
The concept of human rights is a social phenomenon and a social movement based on cooperative ideas for their implementation. No State, no matter how advanced its democracy is, has a perfect record of human rights. The challenge for people today, when the world is at a crossroads, is to chart a path of reform so that the deficiencies that exist in the current rule-based international system are addressed and the UN human rights system is able to evolve in a manner which can keep pace with the political changes taking place around it. Thus, what has been built within the UN system thus far provides an excellent platform to carry out serious reform to face the challenges of a multi-polar word. The expectations of the UN human rights system are high but the institutions created are not able to meet with the challenges brought about by violations of human rights.
