Enhancing Human Rights Laws: Addressing Current Societal Needs

This presentation examines the protection of human rights, highlighting gaps and weaknesses in existing laws and their relevance to contemporary society. It delves into the meaning of social ideals and their practical realization through institutional arrangements. The presentation identifies challenges such as weak institutions, democracy deficits, and various implementation issues, including knowledge, capacity, and security gaps. It emphasizes the importance of education, capacity building, and addressing security concerns to effectively protect human rights. The discussion also touches upon limitations in human rights-based approaches to development, such as the focus on capacity building and service delivery, and the potential for these approaches to be less effective in certain contexts. The presentation concludes by underscoring the need for action and enforcement of international human rights laws, rather than mere declarations, to achieve meaningful progress in protecting human rights.