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This 10 page paper discusses the following statement “the position of the individual in international law has changed dramatically over the last sixty years. This change is reflected in contemporary international human rights law”. The paper looks at the development of the rights over the last sixty years and the way that the individual rights are either protected or undermined. In addition to the international law the paper also looks at the Human Rights Act 1998 in the UK as an example of the way international law is adopted in a nation state. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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as there has been an increased level of protection codified into international law, which in turn has impacted on national laws. In order to assess the level and types of
changes that has occurred. However, when the actual laws are considered and the impact of the laws are assessed it may be argued that the changes over the last fifty
years, despite the apparent intentions that this should happen. Human rights are often assumed to be an ongoing and permanent moral framework, Nickel (1987) states that the definition
may be seen as one of "basic moral guarantees that people in all countries and cultures allegedly have simply because they are people" (p 561). However, there is a basic
misunderstanding in this statement, as it makes the same assumption that is dominant in the discussion of human rights, as the guarantees are not rights, they are not enforceable under
a single international law and the level at which they are protected varies widely between different cultures and different countries (Nickel, 1987). The modern idea of human rights may
be seen as the basic requirements for a minimally good life, and springs from the ideas of natural law, meaning that there is a law that is more basic that
that which is made by man, supports of this such as Aristotle and the stoics such as Cicero and Seneca all looked to duty and the role of society, as
such it was the society that mattered and ton the individual (Kenny, 2001). Modern human rights start to appear with the works of John Locke, who, in his work; "Two
Treatises of Government" suggested that individual have rights as well as duties, and that they had the right to self preservation (Kenny, 2001). This is an embryonic notion of individual
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