TERRORISM: A HUGE CHALLENGES FOR THE PROTECTING OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Abstract

The protection and promotion of Human Rights is basic for civilized existence because these rights are demands to protect our only common identity as human beings. In democratic societies fundamental human rights and freedoms are put under the guarantee of law and therefore, their protection becomes an obligation of those who are entrusted with the task of their protection. There has been a growing consciousness amongst citizens all over the world against violation of human rights. Strong national and international movements have emerged.
In their correct perspective, it needs to be pointed out that human rights of citizens which are first of all ethical norms for treatment of an individual in the society arenon-negotiable and non-derrogable. No compromise with violations of the same is permissible in any civilized society. These rights recognize the essential worth of a human being and acknowledge the dignity inhering in all human beings, irrespective of their race, sex or economical level of living. While this is a historical fact, it is also a reality that the cult of terrorism strikes at the very root of human rights of innocent people. Terrorism and human rights are natural enemies with no possibility of their co-existence. No person who supports human rights can support terrorism, which results in a grave violation of human rights of innocent citizens. The growing menace of terrorism is a fight between barbarism and civilisation and is a morally degrading means of struggle, with no justification whatsoever. It is not merely a heinous criminal act it is more than mere criminality. It poses a formidable challenge to the enjoyment of human rights.