The human rights approach (HRBA) is focused on empowering individuals to know their rights and increase the ability of the individual and institutions which are responsible for respecting, protecting and fulfilling the rights. Human rights is about giving people wider opportunities to participate in the decisions which impact on their human rights, it is also about an increase in the ability of those who have a responsibility for fulfilling rights to understand how to respect the rights, and ensure that they can be held to account. The approach is …show more content…
Using the human rights approach is the development partners who direct their programmes in order to protect and promote the human rights within an agreement with international human rights standards and principles. The purpose of the approach is to acknowledge the groups and individuals whose rights have or are being violated and to be able to understand why individuals are unable to enjoy having their own rights. The panel principles are underlying principles which have fundamental importance in applying a human rights approach within a practice. The principles of this are; Participation, Accountability, Non-Discrimination and Equality, Empowerment and Legality. (See