... division of the world was the first concern. But as stated by Farer & Gaer: "In the wake of the Cold War the UN has finally become an agent for democratisation and minority protection". This paradox existing between the growing importance of Human Rights and their constant breaches is made even more surprising by the fact that Human Rights became "in the century's finale a pervasive global cause, culminating in the most unusual of modern wars, the NATO intervention in Kosovo"1 and the American expeditions in the Middle East (Afghanistan and Iraq). As never before, the foreign political stage is seemingly dominated by claims for basic political, individual and even social and economical rights (with the growth of an anti-globalization movement). So strong is that tendency, that Human Rights offenses are now hunted down whether they are past (for example the attempt to bring Augusto Pinochet to justice) or more ...

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