One of the impacts of the Second World War (WWII) is the movement from the strict reliance on theprinciple of state sovereignty or vjurisdiction to the concept of universality. 1The conceptgave impetus to and culminatedin the adoption ofplethora of human rights instruments. Under the UnitedNations auspices, the Universal Declaration of HumanRights was adopted in 1948; 2and today it “represents amajor milestone in human progress.†3 It is also the“corner stone of contemporary human rights law,†4 O