Abstract

The United Nations holds the responsibility "to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained”. Human rights and International law are knit together since the Geneva convention, the deep intervention of both the disciplines earlier led to the adoption of the UDHR. This article reviews the limitations that have been significantly affecting human rights influence in International law. Subsequently, the article responds to three important international lawyers that have expressed well articulated arguments on the issues associated with the human rights regime. The author will conclude this paper by establishing problems associated with the Euro-American history of international law and the exclusion of third world states.

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