Simply put, human rights are rights one has from being human. These rights are inalienable or ‘natural’ rights because despite “how inhumanely we act or are treated we cannot become other than human beings.” Human rights are as basic as: the right to life, liberty and security; to freedom of conscience, thought and religion; to freedom from slavery; to freedom from torture and degrading treatment; to equality before the law and et cetera. These ri

On the other hand, such views put forth promoting cultural-relativism and situational differences have been interpreted by Western proponents of the current universal human rights principles as a tacit move by states with suspect human rights practices to escape international scrutiny. Western universal advocates like Jack Donnelly and others argue that if exemptions were allowed for arguments of stages of development, and particularities in addition to, and under the umbrella of cultural-relativism, any international human rights standards which arises (if any), would be ad hoc and irrelevant. It defeats the whole purpose of having international human rights standards.

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