Jack Donnelly, The Relative Universality of Human Rights.docVIP

The Relative Universality of Human Rights Jack Donnelly Graduate School of International Studies University of Denver [forthcoming, 2007, Human Rights Quarterly] Human rights as an international political project are closely tied to claims of universality. The foundational international legal instrument is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The 1993 World Human Rights Conference, in the first operative paragraph of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, asserted that “the universal nature of these rights and freedoms is beyond question.” Attacks on the universality of huma