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HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights is defined as droits de lhomme, derechos humanos, Menschenrechte,


which mean that the rights that one has because one is human. 1 They are commonly
understood as absolute fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply
because she or he is a human being, and which are essential in all human beings does not care
of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnic origin or any position he or she is.
Regional organisation are protecting human rights that are the body of sub-regimes and it
is independently comprehensible. Regional systems of international human rights law is
supplement of the national and international human rights law protecting and promoting
human rights in specific areas of the world. It is the international law that designated to
protect and encourage human rights at the international levels.
The human rights protection under the regional organisation is made up under treaties
between states that are bound by the agreement to make it legally effect between the parties
that had agreed to them. It is also considered as customary international law. The states who
is ratify the regional organisation that conducted the human rights security from it bind
themselves to concerning those rights and ensuring the law of the state companionable with
the treaties. If there is failure to comply or abuses of human rights, there will be remedies and
the party may able to resort to the regional organisation that protected under it. There are
three source of regional human rights instruments can be identified that have been established
in Europe, Americas and Africa.

1 Jack Donnelly, Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice (1st, Cornell University, United
State of America 2003) 7

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