Direct, participatory and responsive democracy has been shown to be conducive to achieving a more just world order. Only such an approach will allow … - Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Democracy means a genuine correlation between the will of the people and legislation and policies that affect them, be it domestic or international.

Let us abandon the obsolete division of rights into artificial categories of first, second and third generation rights – with their intrinsic prejudices. Let us consider redefining human rights in functional terms.I am suggesting a functional paradigm of enabling rights (such as the rights to peace, food, health and homeland), inherent rights (such as equality and non-discrimination), procedural rights (such as access to information, freedom of expression and due process) and what I would call outcome rights, that is, the practical realization of human dignity in the form of the right to our identity, to achieve our potential and to be just who we are, free to enjoy our own culture and opinions. The absence of this outcome right to dignity and self-respect is reflected in much of the strife we see in the world today.

A State that fails to ensure the human rights of the population living under its jurisdiction is a failed State