THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN BUDDHISM

THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN BUDDHISM Bhakti Ram Ghimire Advocate Phd Scholar at LBU, Nepal. Human Rights Today people around the world are aware of their own fundamental rights. They also witness violations of human rights in the name of religion, politics, personal ambitions etc. Human rights are a matter of morally binding law, but they have increasingly become a matter of politics as well. Lawyers, politicians and governments, nongovernmental organizations, men and women, the elderly as well as children, violators as well as victims all of them are involved in the issue of human rights. The term of 'human rights' means the rights that belong to all people, equally, irrespective of their citizenship, nationality, religion, race, ethnicity, language, gender, or abilities. Today we consider as human rights mainly those rights that are protected by universal or regional human rights conventions. Human rights conventions are legally binding international treati...