Human Rights are complex and contested social practice that organizes relations between individuals, society and the State. Comment
Human rights are those rights to which an individual is entitled by virtue of his status as a human being. The scope of human rights is very wide. They set the standards for the provision and expansion of civil, political and social-economic rights, and are not just related to individual, but also to society and state, thereby making it a contested and context topic in political theory. Human rights constitute the very source of all rights of human beings. They embody the scheme of ideal rights. They provide for moral foundation of any system of rights, based on the concept of justice. As human rights sets the standards on which all other rights should be based. This shifts the pedal of debate from individual to societal. Human Rights as complex and contested social practice is seen as: Social-welfare theory of rights postulates that rights are, in essence, conditions of social welfare. The state should set aside all other considerations and recognize only such rights ...