Human Rights in the World Community: Issues, Challenges, and Action Proposed

Protection of human rights is of paramount significance for peace and peacekeeping in the world community. The idea of human rights was globally institutionalized with the Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations after the Second World War. To protect human beings, the world community of the United Nations is entitled to fight human rights violations and maintain and foster global human rights in international law in relation to peace and prosperity among nations in sustainable development. Presenting the importance of human rights in relation to peace and peacekeeping, the chapter analyzes the justification and universality of human rights as the basis of intergovernmental cooperation between states in the international system by the United Nations. Finally, with the analysis of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and human rights, the chapter presents human rights as an important philosophical and political ideal that is essential for global cosmopolitanism and world citizenship. Thus, human rights are paramount as a global regime of theoretical justification of global respect for human dignity in policies and practices of peace and peacekeeping in the world community.