Universalism vs. Relativism: Human Rights

Universalism vs. Cultural Relativism is one of the main theoretical challenges of human rights. Some argue that the rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights should be, as the declaration itself states, Universal. Others believe that because beliefs and values are often unique to different cultures, human rights should be too.
In this video we look at these two conflicting ideas, and also explore what Human Rights scholar Jack Donnelly calls, the Relative Universality of Human Rights. The idea that Human Rights are universally accepted as a concepts, but how those rights are implemented can be relative.
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