Starting from the ethical imperative, the approach is essentially built on Human Rights.

It evokes the general principles of the universal declaration of human rights, translated into binding juridical norms through the two 1966 pacts, i.e. the International Pact on Civil and Political Rights and the International pact for economical, social and cultural rights; it also recalls the principles of enforcability, indivisibility, universality of rights, the principles of non-discrimination as well as those of the interdependance between the different rights.

Above all, for all national and international, private and public actors, the Human Rights approach stresses the fact that the non application of the Pact is synonymous to an assault on human dignity. It boils down to the negation of human rights.