INTRODUCTION Human rights have been defined as “fundamental moral guarantees that people of all countries and cultures presumably have simply because they are people. Calling these guarantees “rights” suggests that they are attributed to particular individuals who can invoke them, that they have a high priority, and that their enforcement is obligatory rather than discretionary. Human rights are also international norms that help protect all people everywhere from serious political, legal and social abuses. Human rights philosophy addresses questions about the existence, content, nature, universality, justification, and legal status of human rights. Strong claims made for human rights often provoke skeptical doubts and conflicting philosophical defenses. Reflection on these doubts and on the answers that can be given to them has become a subfield of political and legal philosophy with an extensive literature. Why human beings have rights Rights are due to man, precisely because he is a person and, therefore, has value. and dignity. Man is not simply a piece of matter, a robot, an instrument, a bundle of drives or a meaningless question mark as some philosophers would reduce it. He is a person, he has the power to think, judge and reason; he is master of himself and his actions; it has a supreme purpose that transcends this life. From the Christian point of view, he has infinite value because he is made in the image and likeness of God, being endowed with an immortal soul destined for eternal life with God. Therefore by virtue of his human nature (or by virtue of natural law), by virtue of his supreme value and dignity as a person, man...... at the center of the charter......s as formal properties of human rights, object of human rights and force of human rights. However, there is much less agreement on the fundamental question of how human rights can be philosophically justified. It would be fair to say that philosophers have provided many different, sometimes even conflicting, answers to this question. Philosophers have tried to justify human rights by appealing to single ideals such as equality, autonomy, human dignity, basic human interests, the capacity for rational action, and even democracy. Bibliography: Codd, Clara M. The Ageless Wisdom of Life. Wheaton III USA: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1971. Dumbray, S. M. and Charles A. Introductory Philosophy. New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1933. Gilson, E. Elements of Christian Philosophy. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1960.