In the Name of the Most High
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial ones. During the recent decades, this problem was more political than being either ethical or legal. Although the influence of political motives, rivalries, and considerations have made difficult the correct formulation of this problem , but this should not prevent thinkers and genuine humanists from probing into this problem and ultimately reaching a conclusion.
In the West,
though the issue of human rights was raised by the thinkers of the
post-Renaissance period, it is only since the last two hundred years or
so that it became an issue of prominence among the political and social
issues of Western society and an issue of fundamental significance.
Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political
upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal
ideals. During the last decades this emphasis reached its climax in the
West. With the formation of the UN after the Second World War and the
subsequent drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a
concrete model came into existence as a result of this emphasis that can
serve as a criterion and basis of our judgment and analysis of the
ideals voiced in this regard during the last two hundred years and
especially in the last few decades.
