Beyond the Abstract

Akhilesh Singh Jamwal

Human Rights, a phrase heard by everyone yet not truly understood by many. Almost every individual who hears the phrase thinks of high-stake cases in Supreme Court, massacres of innocents or exploitation of workers in conditions one can hardly imagine. Essentially a lay man has completely alienated themselves from the understanding of Human Rights in their day-to-day lives, they believe it is involved only when the topic of discussion is about something severe and at a scale quite grand. But that is not necessarily the case, as Human Rights play an important role in our daily lives as well, a lot of people just don’t know it yet.

Human rights as the legal concept that we know today came into existence with the advent of United Nations, and the p

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