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This 7 page paper considers where the concept of universal human rights an exclusive manifestation of western culture, discussing this with reference to Asian debate. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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the judgment of those in the west is based on the cultural bias that proliferates the ideology that is endemic in the society, with the concept of human rights enshrined
for centuries. However, there are challenges to this view of human rights as being universal and western beliefs have dominated agreements, the article 5 of the Vienna Convention 1993 states
that "human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated". There is some recognition that there needs to be issues such as culture, regional or national peculiarities and religious differences taken
into account in the way that human rights are perceived, this does not take away from their universalism. In contrast to this the Bangkok declaration criticizes the way that human
rights have been politicized and brought into the international political arena, article 7 states that it is the responsibly of the state to promote and protect human rights, which takes
it out of the international arena. This increases the potential understanding that the assumed universal values of human rights may not be viewed as universal by those in the east
(Meijer, 2001). To consider this the concept of human right and how they may not be seen as universal needs to be
considered, it may be argued that even in the west the concept of universal human rights is relativity recent in human history. In Greece to distinction between the means barbarians,
and after being those who would not agree, who were considered to be congenitally inferior, and where afforded fewer rights. Likewise, in ancient Rome the rights of an individual were
based not on universal rights but on birth status, citizenship or achievement; rights were not grated to an individual based simply on their humanity. In the first millennium of the
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