Are Human Rights Still Universal? Page 1 Are Human Rights Still Universal? George Weigel F
Ive years after the Revolution of 1989, the idea that certain basic and in- alienable human …

My students seem to be very concerned--and also very divided--on how to approach the
difficult subject of human rights in non-Western societies. Is it right, the question is often …

The modern crusade for human rights has been seen as having its foundation in Western
(European and North American) political history and culture. The focus on Western human …

How basic human rights come into existence is discussed. Rights come into existence and
our consciousness over the course of history as a result of our wishes for various things …

In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and with it a
profusion of norms, processes, and institutions to define, promote, and protect human rights …

This essay asks how is it that liberals justify military humanism in the name of protecting
freedom, human rights and democracy, even when it is pursued unilaterally by a self …

In 1947, the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) submitted
its Statement on Human Rights to the United Nations.'Anthropologists have been …

The critical analysis of culture constitutes a blind spot in most approaches to the question of
human rights. This also applies to the cultural assumptions and foundations that lie beneath …

Since 1945, human rights language has become a source of power and authority. Human
rights doctrine is now so powerful, but also so unthinkingly imperialist in its claim to …

There is a conceptual contretemps in international human rights. And just as this crisis is
troubling to those who write about legal institutions, it poses a conundrum for those who …