Human Rights Law

International human rights law is the body of international law designed to promote human rights on social, regional and domestic levels. The cited article, titled International human rights law because the title Human rights law redirects to it, explains that it is primarily made up of treaties, agreements between sovereign states intended to have binding legal effect between the parties, together with customary international law, and that other human rights instruments, while not legally binding, contribute to its implementation, understanding and development. It says that human rights law, which governs a state's conduct toward its people in peacetime, is traditionally seen as distinct from international humanitarian law, which governs conduct during conflict, although the two branches are complementary and in some ways overlap. Doctrines grouped under this entry concern rights protected in international law.