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ghts law, applied to a state, own citizens serves the interests of states by min
imizing the risk of violent resistance and protest and by keeping the level of d
issatisfaction among people within the manageable limits. Yet there is another n
otion called Human Security Approach, which justifies human rights as a prior co
ndition for ensuring human secutity. This school of thought challenges the tradi
tional, state-based conception of security and argues that a people-focused appr
oach to security is more appropriate in modern interdependent world and would be
more effective in advancing the security of individuals and society across the
globe. The international regime of human rights is a complementary requirement t
o realize the new idea of human security.