Abstract
The normative and practical significance which human rights have ac- quired in contemporary international relations cannot be controverted. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 was the first instrument, to have proclaimed "Universal values" for the post war world. Though the implicit idea was that these values could not be derogated from there was nothing binding about it. The practise of international relations in the last fifty years hasgiven a new dimension to the Universality of human rights. In the international legal parlance human rights have acquire the status of jus cogens or per emptory norms of international law. Thus, the proclamations of values through the U Declaration of 1948, has acquired substantive significance. There have been a plethora of instruments which have been concluded at the international and regional level to strengthen and concretize these universal values, since 1948.
Recommended Citation
Uddin, QM Maarij
(1996)
"Reservation to Human Rights 'Treaties -
'Treaties - A
Threat to the
"Universality" of Human Rights,"
National Law School of India Review: Vol. 8:
Iss.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://repository.nls.ac.in/nlsir/vol8/iss1/8
