Human Rights In Russia

In the recent decades, number of the NGOs in Russia has growing rapidly. Russia is the third largest trading partner of the EU and the economic factors have play a dominant role in determining the EU’s human rights policies vis-??-vis Russia

human security

The concept of human security does not challenge the relevance of the state-centric arguments in so far as these concern the protection of the state from external military violence. However, the concept does show that state-centric realism is not a sufficient security argument in that it does not adequately address the security of people within states and therefore does not serve as the dominant understanding.

Humanitarian intervention: united nations in rwanda

The concept of humanitarian intervention can be traced back to medieval theorists like Thomas Aquinas and international legal theorists such as Vitoria and Grotius. According to these thinkers, a prince’s right to rule his people could be breached if human wellbeing was severely compromised due to natural disasters or the prince’s own depravity (Morgenthau 1967). Under these situations, foreign princes had a right or, rather, an obligation, to intervene in order to alleviate human suffering, by force if need be. As the notion of state sovereignty came increasingly to dominate International Law after 1648, humanitarian intervention fell out of favour. But in the post-Cold War order, the concept appears to have emerged once again, so much so that some have declared that ‘sovereignty is no longer sacrosanct’ (Copra and Weiss 1992 cited in Ayoob 2002: 84; Krasner 1995).