Synopsis The concepts of human rights is not new ones as these are moral claims which everyone of us is entitled to have. Besides, these rights have universal acceptance and accessible to all men, women and children without any discrimination based on caste, colour, sex and religion. Its basic objective is to uphold human dignity, equality, and foster liberty and fraternity. This book contains 16 chapters and each chapter elaborates different issues and problems linked with the individual rights on one hand and collective rights on the other hand. This book begins with the historical background of human rights, its various organs and instruments adopted and enforced to promote and protect the human rights of individuals and society at large. This book also highlights on the various theories of human rights and the role of religion in the promotion of welfare of society. This book describes separately about the rights of child, rights of the women and also rights of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and minorities. In this book brief description has been given about regional instruments implemented in America, Europe, Africa and Arab countries to promote the rights of the people.