The Duty of International Cooperation on Human Right’s Grounding

The present research investigates if there is a duty of international cooperation on human rights’ grounding or if international collaboration is only an act of courtesy between states. This paper analyses this duty in the human rights’ theory in order to verify if its discourse and practice can build arguments capable of affirming that duty. Therefore, it will use a normative approach to the theme. The hypothesis which guides this research is that both moral and legal grounding of human rights impose an international cooperation obligation. In order to build this argument, firstly if verified how the idea of human rights is related to the idea of international cooperation is. Then, moral and legal grounding of human rights are investigated in order to understand how they can convert the ethical building of solidarity in to political action, in the shape of international cooperation.

Keywords:
Human Rights; International Cooperation; Moral Grounding