iel Bell raises the question of the appropriateness of applying “Western” conceptions of
human rights norms to non-Western societies, societies often characterized, at the present …

The critique of human rights has proliferated in critical legal thinking over recent years,
making it clear that we can no longer uncritically approach human rights in their liberal form …

Stephen Angle's Human Rights and Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2002) is a wonderful book that combines philosophically …

" China poses great challenges to human rights in theory and practice. In practice, China is
considered, by the measure of most Western countries, to have a patchy record of protecting …

T here is currently a great deal of interest, both practical and theoretical, in encouraging
protection for human rights in many nonwestern political contexts. However, scholar and …

Much mainstream legal comment on human rights law presents an unhelpfully crude picture
of disagreement concerning the significance that should be attached to human rights in …

The contemporary right to freedom of thought together with all its further declinations into
freedom of speech, religion, conscience and expression had one ofits earliest historical …

If the response of the human rights community to the “Asian values” debate is a reliable
indicator, human rights are in more trouble than is generally recognized. For striking about …

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 …

In their effort to secure human rights while still preserving cultural identities, scholars have
engaged in a hunt for notions of rights in non-Western traditions. I argue that such a quest is …