The Relationship Between Anti-terrorism and Human Rights Protection: Perspective of International Politics

This article briefly outlines how anti-terrorism struggles became linked and their relationship thereafter with human rights issues in international political life.With equal relevance and value to human development,anti-terrorism efforts and human rights protection are themselves not mutually exclusive or contradictory.Their conflict in everyday life has sometimes resulted from the fact that they are both manipulated in the service of certain political ends.What’s more,there has never been p erfect human rights protection in the world so far,which often makes human rights problems an easy charge against almost every government.No anti-terrorist activities in either the US or Europe have been really constrained by the idea of human rights no matter how beautiful their rhetoric has been.Now both human rights and anti-terrorism have been made into a tool of diplomacy and international politics.With the war in Afghanistan over,the United States is enhancing its human rights diplomacy together with its anti-terrorism diplomacy.Truly efficient,comprehensive international cooperation on anti-terrorism is still far away.