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Human Rights, Environment & Community: A Workshop: Presentation By Neil A.F. Popovic, Neil A.F. Popovic
Human Rights, Environment & Community: A Workshop: Presentation By Neil A.F. Popovic, Neil A.F. Popovic
Buffalo Environmental Law Journal
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Human Rights, Environment And The Ogoni: Strategies For Non-Governmental Organizations, Claude Welch
Human Rights, Environment And The Ogoni: Strategies For Non-Governmental Organizations, Claude Welch
Buffalo Environmental Law Journal
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Cultural Relativism And Cultural Imperialism In Human Rights Law, Guyora Binder
Cultural Relativism And Cultural Imperialism In Human Rights Law, Guyora Binder
Journal Articles
The "Universalism-Cultural Relativism" debate proceeds on the assumption that international human rights law requires the identification of fundamental principles of justice that transcend culture, society, and politics. Thus, the debate presumes that to assert the cultural relativity of justice is to deny the legitimacy of international human rights law. This comment challenges this presumed linkage between international human rights law and universally valid criteria of justice. Human rights standards are obviously culturally relative, and human rights law is obviously a Western institution. But so are the kind of states that human rights law sets out to restrain. The nation-state ideal …
Ingos As Political Actors, Makau Mutua