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With the help of ten categories of Human Rights under the Declaration, a ‘scale’ can be proposed hypothetically to measure quantum or extent of protecting Human Rights in a culture or polity. These categories can be treated as variables also.
The number of these categories can further be increased in the present context. Each proposed category has been allotted here value of 20 marks. However, a particular category owing to its greater importance can be allotted marks from 20 to 50. As such, it makes up a scale of 200 marks. It is proposed to measure Human Rights found in different systems, organisations and ideologies. A ‘guidelines for measuring Human Rights Cluster or Human Rightism’ is proposed hereunder.
Such a Scale of Measuring Human Rightism would be useful in knowing span of Human Rightism found in a particular political system, political party, government, organisation or community. The scale may be applied to know the extent of Human Rightism prevailing in the whole world or any part or region thereof. This scale can be applied to measure Human Rightism irrespective of particular ideology, structural system, faith or religion. It can be done so on the basis of the concept of ‘minimal good life’ to be brought about by Human Rights.
One can, thus, neglect the preference of the West and the US for making civic and political rights compulsory and the Eastern societies upholding requirements of society as a whole. The scale of Human Rightism, overriding them both, can evaluate them. The proposed scale can give an estimate of Human Rightism found in an ideology, religion or school of thought. With its help, one can find out the gap or extent of difference between ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ of Human Rightism claimed by a particular political party, system, organisation or institution.
It can report as well as compare the quantum of Human Rightism found in different political systems, cultures and ideologies during a particular century, historical stage or era. It can be done so both horizontally as well as vertically: Human Rightism existing in different states during medieval period or in Hindu states for the last two centuries.
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Each type of comparison, analysis, or evaluation can predict guidelines to increase Human Rightism further. After ascertaining guidelines, one can formulate programme of reform, agitation and struggle to realise the needed quantum of Human Rightism, and arrive at an estimate of the cost, in terms of men, money and material, to be incurred for launching that programme.
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This cost can be reduced by resorting to peaceful means like generating consensus, procuring consent, seeking mutual cooperation, and entering into friendly deliberation. The leaders or managers can divide their programme into several segments and stages. Some separate board, commission, corporate body, tribunal, bureau or organisation can be constituted for the purpose of its proper implementation and reporting of the programme.
Every society, community, caste or group can determine its own path of human progress from minimum to maximum Human Rightism, One can also anticipate the hurdles, difficulties and challenges coming in the way of survival or existence of a system struggling to increase Human Rightism.
However, it may be concluded that Human Rights do not stand on strong footing of their own. They depend on care and mercy of the nation-states and the UN bodies, and ultimately on the might of dominating powers. Recourse to them is not very safe for man. Nowhere and none of the human rights provide strength to man to overcome effectively the forces, organisation and jehadi teachings to forgo their claim to practice violence openly against innocent persons, security forces and peace loving persons.
There are Human Rights bodies like Amnesty International (1961), Human Rights Watch (1978) and so on that stand by the victims of human rights violation, but lack courage, skill, aptitude and manpower to stop violence of the violators of Human Rights: Extremists, Fundamentalists and Terrorists.