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Human Rights Law

2017

Brooklyn Law School

And Cultural Rights; Helsinki Act; American Convention on Human Rights 1969; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; United Nations Human Rights Committee; European Court of Human Rights; Freedom of Opinion; Media; The 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights; Bangkok Declaration; San Jose Declaration; Tunis Declaration; U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom; Universalism; Absolutism; U.N. General Assembly; Cultural relativism;

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When Does Cultural Satire Cross The Line In The Global Human Rights Regime?: The Charlie Hebdo Controversy And Its Implication For Creating A New Paradigm To Assess The Bounds Of Freedom Of Expression, Kwanghyuk Yoo May 2017

When Does Cultural Satire Cross The Line In The Global Human Rights Regime?: The Charlie Hebdo Controversy And Its Implication For Creating A New Paradigm To Assess The Bounds Of Freedom Of Expression, Kwanghyuk Yoo

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

Social justice does not exist in a vacuum. Social justice deters human rights policies from crossing the line. Thus, the principle of justice counterbalances the evils of the laissez-faire human rights philosophy when society lacks an appropriate form of legal or regulatory framework for legitimate restraints on human rights. Moreover, well-ordered just society does not allow human rights to be abused or curtailed beyond the level necessary to safeguard superior social norms or national interests. As such, human rights are subject to relative protection while they receive universal respect across the world. From a semantic standpoint, two ambivalent natures of …