In human rights concept and context brian orend provides us with a remarkably irenical analysis of the main concepts debates and thinkers that have fleshed out the modern idea of human rights his achievement lies in his ability to identify how all three have variously advanced the idea and in professor louis henkins language have contributed to making this the age of rights orend . The second part offers a detailed account of how the human rights idea came to be such a powerful force in the contemporary world it traces the evolution of human rights from their origins to. The second part offers a detailed account of how the human rights idea came to be such a powerful force in the contemporary world it traces the evolution of human rights from their origins to. The concept of human rights is also invoked with increasing frequency in the context of security issues and as justification of armed conflict4 in one sense the concept of human rights is as familiar to