Mechanisms for Guaranteeing Human Rights
Mechanisms for Guaranteeing Human Rights

Summary/Abstract: The mechanisms for guaranteeing human rights should become the most important institutions of international law. The mechanisms to guarantee human rights and protect those rights are very important. If they do not work or are not able to avoid human rights violations we discuss application of punishments. The two works one in continuation of the other. When they reach the application of punishment it is more than evident that mechanisms for safeguarding the rights of men have not functioned properly. International humanitarian law took its modern form after World War II in order to create a deterrent to the repeat of the horrors that took place in the trenches and concentration camps. Important conventions were agreed on including the European convention on Human Rights, the Genocide Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the four Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols (that protect the civilians and victims of war). By including criminal provisions and obligations for nations these also gave strong notions of a development in international criminal law.

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