NON-DEROGABLE RIGHTS IN THE ICCPR: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN DIGNITY IN SITUATIONS OF ARMED CONFLICT AND COUNTER-TERRORISM

Abstract

Although Non-Derogable rights are prevalent and in force during the time of Public emergency which threatens the life of nation yet the question of Human Dignity still remains an unsettle domain that how it will be intact and taken care of even in the emergency of public nature under the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights. Despite the extensive literature of this covenant Article 4(2) and Article 7 there is no study which treats human Dignity as an operational ,non derogable legal constraint in armed conflict and counter-terrorism context. This article suggests by using the Doctrinal methodology to theorize that Human Dignity must also be defined and its threshold must be crafted by the International Bodies in order to intact it as per the Article 2 of Universal; Declaration of Human Rights.