Sunday, January 24, 2010

Human rights in western thought


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Receive the issue of human rights, of great importance in the modern era, at the level of peoples and nations and international organizations.
The World Charter of Human Rights by the General Assembly of the United Nations in the 12-10-1948, the culmination of Western civilization, and the efforts of intellectuals and reformers in the modern era.
Charter has been issued after the end of the Second World War a few years, as an expression of the desire for the unity of mankind, the unity of human rights in the international community, which suffered from the scourge of war.
And forget the human rights, or neglect, have resulted in barbarous acts that hurt the conscience of mankind, as stated in the Charter.


Therefore, he called in the introduction to promote respect for rights and freedoms, and to work through education, action and a national and global; To ensure the recognition of human rights, and observance of an effective manner, between the Member States to the WTO, as well as among the peoples subject to the jurisdiction
Has culminated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, many of the efforts of intellectuals and philosophers from the West.
These efforts were due to the thirteenth century AD, when the Magna Charta was issued in 1215 in England, which has acquired the English people which, the right to avoid the financial ombudsman, which was signed by the Authority at the time.
Have included the Declaration of American Independence in 1776 is a human right, with its emphasis on the right to life, liberty and equality.
The French Revolution and the Declaration of Human Rights in the 8-26-1789, is a declaration of those rights. Thus, prior to these conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is an important and decisive step, after the efforts of European thinkers and philosophers for several centuries, which was aimed at protecting people from suffering and pain, which was overwhelmed beneath the administrative and religious authorities in Europe, during the dark ages, and the beginnings of the Renaissance European.
Those suffering due to the tyranny of feudal rule and the clergy, and the rush of the church to fight all the intellectual trends, which seek to liberate the human mind and the same.
All these factors did not exist in Islam, faith and law, or civilization.
Another issue, it should be mentioned, namely:
The idea of human rights, which originated within the European continent, was used in the liberation of Europe from the tyranny of human power and the clergy, Did not extend this idea to include the protection of whole peoples, the subject of European colonialism in the modern era, But received from the Ombudsman and tyranny, all contrary to the principles of human rights.
The World Charter for Human Rights, which has some links with the Charter of the United Nations, has focused on the consideration of human rights at the international level. Did not become the issue in each State, subject to considerations of national sovereignty, but combined the recognition of these rights and practices of an international character, No longer the country’s relations with the individual outside the framework of international law, not of interest only to domestic law.
But now, the unique international character, which made the subject of human rights out of the framework of the relative temporal and spatial, which was exploited by authoritarian regimes, Kennith systems, fascism and Marxism, the wastage of the dignity of individuals, also used by colonial powers, in the non-humanitarian, non-representation, with the peoples that were subject to the jurisdiction of the modern era.
However, for that matter, the nature of international human rights has risks.
It has become the subject of human rights, the subject is entangled and complicated, confused by the attitudes of thought, and it became the subject, and the world is at the present time, perhaps for decades to come.
Has become the cause of human rights now, as a weapon of foreign policy of the major states, it appears that the use of the issue of human rights, a standard in the provision of international assistance to developing countries, Veiled the aid of the States which are contrary to, or accused of violating human rights, in the eyes of the powerful countries.
It also emerged the idea of establishing a “High Commissioner” in the United Nations; to take into account the application of the principles of human rights.
It is well known what the implications of the implementation, the problems in the complex reality of a new world order, it was announced that he was a few years ago, Have yet to trends and values, and scales, which opens the door to images from unwarranted interference in the internal affairs of States, under the banner of human rights.
On the other hand, parties other than the State and Government, is under the objectives and activities, highly relevant topic, such as NGOs, non-governmental organizations, in different countries.
It was a non-governmental organization, an important impact on the Vienna Conference on Human Rights, held from 24 e-Jil Hijjah 1413 to 5 Muharram 1414 AH corresponding to 14 to 25 June 1993, And participated in Saudi Arabia on the high-level delegation, headed by His Royal Highness Prince Saud al-Faisal, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The work of the non-governmental organizations is a corresponding equivalent of States and Governments.
It opens the door to further conviction of the international right to intervene in a country accused of violating human rights principles, in the view of these countries, or non-governmental organizations, under the guise of maintaining the application of the principles of human rights.
Including organizations, has established its work in this area, and it reports that are not free of fabrication, and assess the weight of the specificity of social, cultural and religious of peoples, about the only Western model.