ENFORCEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS CONVENTIONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ITS KEY CHALLENGES

Abstract

The key challenges in efficiently enforcing human rights conventions under international law are the central theme of this essay. Ergo, this essay 's sole intention is to highlight a slew of primary challenges faced by the international community in ensuring an effective enforcement of international human rights conventions under international law. Despite the fact the essay mentions two popular paradigms that have duly emerged under international law - Pinochet and Filartiga paradigms – which bring fresh international inventions in offering new ways of addressing human rights abuses, it never seeks, however, to offer any solution let alone practical solutions in tackling the problems of human rights abuses. This essay is essentially the improved or edited version of the earlier paper initially presented before law students at Simad University in Somalia. This essay also argues that the key challenges in effectively enforcing international human rights law ought to be given due recognition and top priority in its attempt to end the predicament of impunity plaguing the global population.