... ;Western' states. To question the universality of human rights questions the validity of cross-cultural frameworks for rights and also the legitimacy of human rights norms (Ignatieff, 2001). In their book Human Rights: Cultural and Ideological Perspectives, Adamantia Pollis and Peter Schwab (1979) present a view of the UDHR which asserts that it is based upon only one interpretation of human rights ... product of the Greek philosophy, Roman law, the Judeo-Christian tradition, the humanism of the Reformation and the Age of reason' (Robertson and Merrils, 1996, p2). The ancient Greeks thin...

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