HUMAN RIGHTS FETCHING STATUS OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS THROUGH THE ENHANCED CONCEPT OF ARTICLE 21 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA: AN OVERVIEW

Abstract

“Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization” 

- Shirin Ebadi Human rights, as the term is most commonly used, are the rights that every human being is entitled to enjoy and to have protected. This notion of Human Rights is a gift of contemporary human thought to culture and civilisation of the present era. The struggle to promote, protect and preserve human rights changes and holds continuity in every generation in our society. The concept and practice of human rights is the hallmark of any modern society. Since time immemorial, the story of human rights has been the story of human wrongs. It is perhaps to contain and curtail the wrongs by one human being or a group or a body of human beings against the other individual, or a group of beings against the other, that the institutions like family to society as a whole come into existence. The concept of human rights is a dynamic concept, which one has to understand basing on its basic aim that is “Man is born to be free and all that he must do is that be devoted to the wellbeing of human every kind of human beingof whatever race or religion, caste or creed or whatever sex and in all societies, developed and underdeveloped, traditional or modern”. This truth this great objective, belongs equally to everyone. This also sums up the basic objective of human rights, which over the years has gained considerable importance in international thinking and has been the subject of much discussion and debate in recent times. These have been and still are, discussed in international forum such as United Nations, in respective national parliaments, and in the media, and civil rights activities have been taking up the cause of emphasizing the importance  and implementation of human rights for a civilized and healthy Society. Through several ways like recognizing, adopting UDHR 1948 and relative international conventions and making separate legislations in respective countries and establishing human rights commissions etc. fortunately, in India is also one of the countries, which has been taking several steps for promotion and protection of human rights in India. Among these it is very important to understand the expansion of human rights through the enhanced concept of Article 21 of the Indian constitution in recent times in India.