Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between international human rights regimes and the pursuit of United Sates national interests in the 21st century. Archival research or literature survey, content analysis, and the realist theory of international human rights were adopted for the inquiry. The core objectives of the paper were to assess US human rights posture; find out if US international defence of human rights and interventions is without bias; and to determine if there is a positive relationship between US pursuit of national interest and US human rights policy. The results of analysis show that US has both internal and external poor human rights posture; and that lack of neutrality on US international campaign. The results further reveal that there is no generally accepted principles of human rights and its institutions; and although the international human rights regime lacks jurisdiction over the US, it has consistently being used to advance US national interests in the international system. Among others, the paper recommends an international conference of sovereignties to harmonise the principles and institutions of international human rights, and for the regime to have jurisdiction over all sovereignties.
Highlights
Our motive will not be revenge... but only the vindication of right, of human right, which we are only a single champion
Evidences abound in the literature that the United States, led by Eleanor Roosevelt, was at the vanguard of debate and drafting of the international human rights principles through the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) that was established in 1946 [33]
In addition to the American Declaration of Rights and Duties of 1948, the country played a pivotal role in the emergence of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), and other important multilateral treaties on human rights such as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Summary
Our motive will not be revenge... but only the vindication of right, of human right, which we are only a single champion. But only the vindication of right, of human right, which we are only a single champion. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind [1]. Human rights are natural phenomena because they are elementary preconditions for the existence of humans and their dignity, which manifest at the level of interpersonal, groups, and inter-groups relations at all levels. Its existence has been as old as any form of social organisation and relations; the bone of contention is the foundations of human rights, which rights have priority over others, whom these rights belong to, its protection, violation, and nature/means of punishment for violators [2]. Its evolution can be traced to European 30 years’ wars of attrition and the horrific human casualties that characterised the wars, which led to the trans-territorial Treaties of 1648 in Westphalia city, which focused on creating peace, averting future wars, and prohibiting and cushioning the impacts of inter and intra territorial conflicts on mankind
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