Add to ORKGSpeaking for the United States, Secretary of State Warren Christopher told the June 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna that human rights are universal and that “we cannot let cultural relativism become the last refuge of repression”. The universality of human rights was first recognized internationally in the 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. But the fact that these rights are recognized and even seen as universal does not ensure that they will be respected, even by their strongest supporters. The lack of an international tribunal with jurisdiction to hear complaints about human-rights violations and provide remedies for them means that international codes of human rights continue to be ethical statements more th...
There is a great social importance of international, regional, state and practically individual char...
One of the issues constantly discussed in the context of human rights is their assessment as univers...
International human rights doctrine and international law have increasingly come to recognize that t...
On June 14, 1993, the Vienna Conference on Human Rights, sponsored by the United Nations, commenced ...
On June 14, 1993, the Vienna Conference on Human Rights, sponsored by the United Nations, commenced ...
THE ISSUE OF THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS Forty-five years after the adoption of the Universal D...
THE ISSUE OF THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS Forty-five years after the adoption of the Universal D...
The normative and practical significance which human rights have ac- quired in contemporary internat...
Globalization has made human rights both increasingly important as the normative standards that seek...
The fifty years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have seen a revoluti...
The debate as to whether human rights should be considered universal or culturally relative has come...
The fifty years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have seen a revoluti...
In an increasingly diverse and multi-polar world, the international human rights field risks losing ...
In an increasingly diverse and multi-polar world, the international human rights field risks losing ...
Let me begin by expressing my gratitude to the editors of this volume, and to the University of Newc...
There is a great social importance of international, regional, state and practically individual char...
One of the issues constantly discussed in the context of human rights is their assessment as univers...
International human rights doctrine and international law have increasingly come to recognize that t...
On June 14, 1993, the Vienna Conference on Human Rights, sponsored by the United Nations, commenced ...
On June 14, 1993, the Vienna Conference on Human Rights, sponsored by the United Nations, commenced ...
THE ISSUE OF THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS Forty-five years after the adoption of the Universal D...
THE ISSUE OF THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS Forty-five years after the adoption of the Universal D...
The normative and practical significance which human rights have ac- quired in contemporary internat...
Globalization has made human rights both increasingly important as the normative standards that seek...
The fifty years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have seen a revoluti...
The debate as to whether human rights should be considered universal or culturally relative has come...
The fifty years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have seen a revoluti...
In an increasingly diverse and multi-polar world, the international human rights field risks losing ...
In an increasingly diverse and multi-polar world, the international human rights field risks losing ...
Let me begin by expressing my gratitude to the editors of this volume, and to the University of Newc...
There is a great social importance of international, regional, state and practically individual char...
One of the issues constantly discussed in the context of human rights is their assessment as univers...
International human rights doctrine and international law have increasingly come to recognize that t...