Law and Human Rights

Abstract

The overarching ambit of law today encompasses not only the custodian of protecting the fundamental rights of individuals but also the right to live with dignity. This dignity comes not only from ascribed rights that an individual is entitled to, but also with a right to fair survival. The current pandemic has shown not only how a microscopic virus can drive people out of employment and how environment is a supremely important factor to our survival. While health is both a duty and a right so is the Environment. Social Justice is not simply an aim of the legal system, but also a framework and fabric on which civilization is sustained. In this sense, human rights, or rather fundamental rights include more than the rights at the personal level, to even extend to those that come with a greater application. Chiefly this resides with the environment where a person is expected to live- not simply a place but a habitable safe and secure place, and with it comes the obligation to keep it protected and preserve it too. Hence the growing environmental and health concerns are equally significant domains covered under human rights. Researchers have attempted to bring a nexus between the rights and the situations that monitor rights through this paper.