Human rights as generally perceived are those rights which a person gets by virtue of being human. It is the prevalent notion, even though not widely practiced that these rights are inherent and becomes operative from birth itself. To put it simply, the human rights are the norm that protects and safeguard people everywhere from severe political, legal, and social abuses. These rights exist in morality and in law at the national and international levels. They are addressed primarily to governments, requiring compliance and enforcement. The main sources of the contemporary conception of human rights are the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations, 1948) and the many human rights documents and treaties that followed in international organizations such as the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Organization of American States, and the African Union. Enactment in national and international law is one of the ways in which human rights exist. But it is not completely true for people who insist on the idea, that human rights are deeper, inherent or innate and cannot be conferred rather a person acquire them by virtue of being human. Human Rights though considered as a post world war phenomena i.e., a relatively newer concept but can be plausibly attributed to historical notions of life, liberty and justice.