International human rights law, or for the United Nations "international human rights law", is the sum total of the international rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international human rights treaties, including the international human rights instruments. Human rights, sometimes referred to as "human rights" or "human rights", are a philosophical, legal and political concept, according to which every human being has universal, inalienable rights, regardless of the positive law in force or other local factors such as ethnicity, nationality or religion.

According to this concept, every human being as such and irrespective of his or her social condition has rights that are "inherent to the person, inalienable and sacred", and can therefore be invoked against society and the authorities in all circumstances. It is not man who is at the service of the State, but it is the State that is at the service of man.

Human rights must be protected at all costs, because man was created in the image and likeness of God. .