Human Rights

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WHAT SHOULD BE A LEGITIMATE ISSUE AGENDA CONCERNING HUMAN RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS?

The interconnectedness in the world produces a new agenda of international issues which affect both powerful and less powerful countries (Lamy, 2001a, 2006b: 213). The effects are widespread, and these problems could only be solved through international cooperation (Greene, 2006: 452). This paper seeks to consider four issues which are legitimate to the human rights agenda in international relations.

Scholars of international relations and human rights argue from different perspectives on a vast range of policy issues. These encompass: global environmental concerns (including nuclear issues); the epidemiology of HIV/AIDs; legal and illegal migration, including refugee movements (Roberts, 2010; Haour-knipe, 2008); the gap between the North and the South in terms of access to and utilization of resources; democratization and the full range of human rights from civil and political rights to the right to development; reform of the United Nations and its agencies and the expansion of international law and the persecution of crimes against humanity, whether involving terrorism, religious fundamentalism, or international organized activities ranging from drug production and trafficking to money laundering, and the smuggling of all kinds of goods including weapons, diamonds and endangered species and individuals (Lawson, 2002: 6).

However, the major focus of the arguments in this field is on human rights violations in the world. My contribution to the argument will be based on four issues for an agenda concerning human rights in international relations.

The increases in war and crime in the world have caused many people to flee their...

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...ity from unlawful coercion, usually enacted by government agents (Brysk, 2002), there is a need to make refugee movement a priority on the agenda.

Similarly, HIV/ AIDS are claiming more lives and many are infected every day. Climate change is worth been on the agenda, because if nothing is done to improve the environmental situations we may not have natural resources necessary for life in the nearest future. The world might experience many people living below the poverty line than we expected. This paper also concludes that Terrorism should be on the agenda because it still continues to claim more lives and many in the world living in fear and anxiety. Terrrorism undermines collective security, and the protection of human dignity. The world leaders should deal with it using various strategies and mechanisms not only declaring war on terrorism through dialogue.