how can gov help in protecting human rights?

Question

more info on human rights

Answer 1

"Individual rights" is a moral and legal term referring to what one is allowed to do and what can be done to an individual. Police states are generally considered to be oppressive because they offer their citizens few individual rights. Individual rights are considered to be central to a "due process model" of criminal justice.

In Western discourse, individual rights are commonly assumed to be inversely related to social control. By contrast, much of the recent political discourse on individual rights in the People's Republic of China, particularly with respect to due process rights and rule of law, has focused on how protection of individual rights actually makes social control by the government more effective. For example, it has been argued that the people are less likely to violate the law if they believe that the legal system is likely to punish them if they actually violated the law and not punish them if they did not violate the law. By contrast, if the legal system is arbitrary then an individual has no incentive to actually follow the law.

People who argue that individual rights are more important than social control are called "individual rights advocates". This school of thought holds that it is better to let a criminal go free than to execute, imprison, or otherwise punish an innocent person. Advocates tend to argue for increased civil rights. This is traditionally associated with liberalism.

Rights are significant only where corresponding duties and responsibilities exist to enforce them - because people must be motivated to undertake these duties and their associated risk (e.g., resisting arrest, fighting back), these rights can normally only be truly enforced by a government that can collect taxes and pay police and court personnel.

Thus, the definition of individual rights is the core responsibility of any modern government. In the United States, the Constitution outlines individual rights within the Bill of Rights. In Canada, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms serves the same function. One of the key differences between the two documents is that some rights in the Canadian Charter can be overridden by governments if they deliberately do so, and "the resulting balance of individual rights and social rights remains appropriate to a free and democratic society" after the change. In practice, no Canadian government has ever chosen to face the political consequences of actually overriding the Charter. In contrast, in the United States, no such override exists (not even in theory, as is the case in Canada), and judicial activism has been the norm in the interpretation of the Bill of Rights.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, and subsequent declarations, established individual rights, in theory, as the basis of international legal norms.

Answer 2

If you are talking about the U.S. government they can help in protecting human rights by upholding the true intent of the Constitution without using it to deal with situational issues. They can clearly define what human rights are. Such as, is educationa a human right? Is healthcare a human right? If so, why aren't those sysdtems being worked on to insure that all people are dealt with equally?

Answer 3

Human rights are international norms that help to protect all people everywhere from severe political, legal, and social abuses.

Answer 4

BY PASSING REGULATING ACTS...
BY JUDICIARY TAKING A SUO-MOTO ACTION...
BY NGO'S...
BY PIL....

Answer 5

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