Human Rights Theory, NGO’s, and Congressional Resolutions as a Response to N Go Activism

A magnificent group of supranational organizations now coexist and their vitally important missions are often unknown to all but the most interested affected parties. They exist within the monumental political arena of modern international relations. There highest order of business is the mandate  that universal human rights are protected,  advanced, and recognized  by nation states,  and that human rights are realized by all individuals residing within all states borders in all nations.  These “rights” are extraordinary in every sense of the word, and human rights scholars agree they are obligations that nation-states must bestow upon their human subjects.

United Nations bodies sanction human rights enforcement procedures and help to clarify actions to take by the authority vested to them under international law. Frequently, these enforcement measures settle human rights non-governmental organization (NGO) claims when a human rights abuse has been said to have occurred.

At the end of WWII, the “war to end all wars”, the necessity to devise and to implement human rights laws was apparent to many concerned nation-state leaders.  Because of the numerous inhumane atrocities which include the well-documented events of the Holocaust as well as other civilian casualties that occurred during the war, human rights injustices could not be allowed to go unpunished or to occur without repercussion from the global community.