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Article: Achieving international justice: human rights promotion and the law.(AN INTERVIEW WITH BERTRAND RAMCHARAN)(Interview)
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- Harvard International Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Do universal human rights exist, and if so is it necessary to justify them philosophically?
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There are, without a doubt, universal human rights. The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights represents a broad consensus on this. In fact, one of the projects I have recently undertaken is to consider and analyze widely held principles of international human rights law.
To the second part of the question, my answer is partially affirmative. There is no doubt that philosophy and philosophers have contributed deeply to the content and nature of human rights. At the same time, however, my studies of the practice of human rights ...