The idea of human rights holds a special place in international law. It stands for a larger, loftier ideal that all people, by virtue of simply being, have certain inherent rights. These rights are meant to form a check on powers that would abuse our inherent freedoms, equality, and dignity. This vision of what human rights can do persists in the places and spaces of international law, however imperfectly, yet far too many human rights abuses continue to take place around the world every day.