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Human Rights- Western Concept

   

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Table of ContentsIntroduction.................................................................................................................................2Human Rights: Western concept?...............................................................................................2Do cultural norm and values conflict with Universal Human rights?........................................4State stance on Universalization.................................................................................................6Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6References...................................................................................................................................71

IntroductionIn the 20th century, the universality of human rights emerged along with the UN Declarationof Human rights believing that the basic principles and values which have been underlying thehuman rights concepts have a universal nature. The concept of individual liberty, freedomalong with beliefs in political rights and democracy are included. These also include theacknowledgment of economic and social right. Initially the human rights ideas were onlyrestricted to the individuals on the basis of the status for example, the individual rights forwhite American male.Various debates from government and scholars have been going on, regarding theuniversalization of the human rights and many have seen that cultural diversity is one of thereason influencing the human rights. Further scholars and officials have argued that thehuman rights usually put the individual above the community which ultimately leads to theopposition to the communitarian values. In this assignment, I have used various arguments aswell as examples in the African context. Human Rights: Western concept?The argument presented in the paper arise from the fact that these human rights possess anindividualist nature and were imposed as a primary condition for independence on the non-western. Further it can be considered that the third world countries and especially sub-Saharan Africa were not represented in the United Nations and not independent yet. The non-representation of sub-Saharan African argument can be considered as a moot argument byconsidering a single fact that these might be possessed with future as well as presentinstruments affirmed and confirmed the universal declaration of human rights. When we takethe example of the African Declaration of peoples and the human rights, the universaldeclaration has been used for acknowledging the preamble. In theory, the charter has taken2

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