rights. Proper functioning of the rule of law, it is essential to have a strong legal framework, under a constitution, that upholds human rights and that provides for effective protection, implementation and redress in key areas at the domestic level, that relate to all human rights, be they civil, cultural, economic, political or social rights. The rule of law concerns itself with the substantive and the procedural, as well as with the quality, content and objectives of laws, processes, institutions and practices. States play a very important role in the promotion and protection of human rights. As the principal “duty-bearers”, State is required under legally binding human rights instruments to adopt a range of measures, including legislative, economic, social and cultural measures, to respect, protect and fulfil all human rights. The interplay between good governance and human rights is marked by the value added that governance provides to human rights, and vice versa.
human rights are mutually linked and complementary. Good governance cannot be achieved in separation from human rights. The two concepts reinforce each other and many of their core principles are common. Popular participation, accountability, transparency, and State-responsibility underline the human rights approach as well as underpin the good governance framework as defined by the Commission on Human Rights. Human rights empower people, help them to assume their roles as community members, provide the legal framework for people’s participation in public affairs and in claiming their rights. Systems of governance should be expressly concerned about their ability to respect, protect and fulfil civil, economic, political and social rights. The exercise of good governance may well result in economic growth and development, as the experiences of many developing countries can attest. The rule of law is indispensable for the exercise of government in a way that promotes and protects human
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"Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man-strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind." - Swami Vivekananda (V.3)
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"I consider that the great national sin is the neglect of the masses, and that is one of the causes of our downfall. No amount of politics would be of any avail until the masses in India are once more well educated, well fed, and well cared for. They pay for our education, they build our temples, but in return they get kicks. They are practically our slaves. If we want to regenerate India, we must work for them." - Swami Vivekananda (V.222-23)
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"The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness - that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils." - Swami Vivekananda (V.425)
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"The work is nothing without the ideal, and will be fruitless if divorced from its inspiring force.” – Yogi Arvind
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"One of the greatest lessons I have learnt in my life is to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end. ...I have been always learning great lessons from that all the secret of success is there: to pay as much attention to the means as to the end." - Swami Vivekananda (II.1)
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"Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, which such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience - these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us. - Swami Vivekananda (VI.349)
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