Impact of Human Rights Organizations Reports in Shaping African States Foreign Relations

Abstract

It is notable that Human rights constitute fundamental needs of human beings’ survival. The existence of human rights organizations is one of the steps in the right direction to ensure these rights are protected from violation, enhanced, and enshrined in each state’s constitutions. The International Human Rights bodies and Local chapters of Human Rights Organizations in different states should promote advocacies of these rights in enhancing co-existence among the citizens themselves, vis-à-vis the citizens and the state. Basing on the divine nature of any state in the field of International Relations and Diplomacy, it is therefore basic that the  responsibility of  any state can be measurable to the level at which it exercises the practice of  human rights. On the basis of the core role of a state to human rights practice, the impact of International Human Rights Organizations’ reports can either portray the understanding of a state on the ‘coin scale’ towards its foreign relations. Using the African states, this paper will address how the reports of International Human Rights Organizations have helped shape their foreign relations.

Key Words: Human Rights, Foreign Relations, Human Rights Reports, e.t.c.