| dc.description.abstract | The concept of human rights is not new but the implementation mechanisms of human rights at national, regional and international level remain quite newer than the concept. The paper examines the implementation mechanisms of international human rights regime on governments‟ human rights practices. The paper put forward an explanation that highlights a “paradox of empty promises” by the governments in implementing human rights. The core argument of the authors is that the universal institutionalization of human rights has created an international context in which governments often ratify human rights treaties as a matter of window dressing, thoroughly decoupling guiding principle from practice and at times exacerbating off-putting human rights practices, but the embryonic global legitimacy of human rights exerts independent universal civil society effects that perk up states‟ actual human rights practices. | en_US |
