TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION; 2) The idea of rights in historical perspective; 3) The idea of rights in context; 4) The idea of rights; 5) The emergence of rights that is human; 6) The emergence of the rights regime; 7) The enforcement of the rights regime through treaties, which formalised and Universalized the human rights regime; 8) Trends in the emerging human rights regime; 9) International criminal law and the principle of individual responsibility; 10) A critique of the human rights approach 11) Cultural relativity; 12) Conclusion