<p class="Default"><font><span style="color:windowtext">Human Rights Reader 278</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:windowtext"></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND
THE STATE:</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">TO HAVE A
RIGHT IS TO HAVE SOMETHING WHICH SOCIETY OUGHT TO DEFEND ME FOR.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span>(John Stuart Mill)<span style="color:blue"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:160px" class="Default"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue"> </span><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">-“Man is a social animal.
Therefore he is a political animal</span></font>".<br></p><div style="margin-left:160px"><font size="1"><span style="color:windowtext">-Members of society who depend most upon an acceptable
theory of justice are its poorer, marginalized and less powerful members. It is
for them that a just society is most crucial. </span></font></div><font size="1">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The
human rights framework basically looks at people in societies with
attention to claims they have on each other in the form of rights and duties,
as well as with attention to their demands for justice and equality.</span></p> <br><p class="Default"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:windowtext">Politics is in a continuum with
morality; our political duties and obligations are thus often congruent with our
moral duties and obligations. Human rights are typically defended on the
basis of moral principles although it may as well be on legal and political
grounds. This is not to say that all politics or all politicians are moral; but
it is to say that our politics are constrained and indeed determined by our
sense of morality.</span></p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:windowtext"></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:windowtext"> From the HR perspective, a person or a group may very well disrupt the
smooth operations of the government if it is convincingly demonstrated these
operations interfere with the overall public interest. HR basically carry within themselves the power to bring individual
interests in line with public interests. HR firmly contend that the function of
the state is and has to be to protect the public interest, protect equity,
protect equality and protect justice.</span>
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