Should demands for human rights be tempered with recognition of cultural difference?

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Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: 2,6, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: IR& Culture, language: English, abstract: At the very moment culture can at least not totally be left out as a factor with regard to human rights demands. However, cultures are not static, they are constantly evolving and challenged also from within (Huysmans 2004, p. 323). Step by step it should be possible to leave culture behind. Last but not least, the strength of a universal human rights idea depends on a broad popular support all over the world "then the shortcomings of Western leaders and the opposition of authoritarian rulers elsewhere will be of little long-run significance" (Brown 2008, p. 519).

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