%0 Journal Article %T A Reflection on the Theory of James Nickel about the Indivisibility, and Interdependence of Human Rights %J Public Law Studies Quarterly %I University of Tehran %Z 2423-8120 %A Rassouli, Sara %A Rezaeenezhad, Iraj %D 2023 %\ 06/22/2023 %V 53 %N 2 %P 919-937 %! A Reflection on the Theory of James Nickel about the Indivisibility, and Interdependence of Human Rights %K human rights %K Indivisibility %K interdependence %K Supporting Relations %R 10.22059/jplsq.2021.311444.2587 %X The international human-rights system includes a wide range of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights (about 40 different rights) that are enshrined in a number of international instruments, general and particular, regional and global. This dispersion implies a kind of separation and division within human rights. It also corresponds to a kind of hierarchy and prioritization between different rights with different content and principles. By explaining James Nickel's theory of indivisibility and interdependence of human rights, this paper seeks to answer whether it is possible to separate and hierarchize human rights, or whether all rights are interrelated and interdependent. The main purpose of this study is to explain the inter-relationship of human rights under the doctrine of indivisibility and interdependence of human rights with special emphasis on the theory of James Nickel. This theory leads to the finding that depending on the effect of one right on other rights in terms of necessity or usefulness, their relationship is either indivisible (based on the principle of necessity) or interdependent (based on the principle of usefulness). %U https://jplsq.ut.ac.ir/article_90186_1644f47c3e44a204ad35c55c8c848fde.pdf