... the values that underpin the UDHR cannot be accepted. During the UDHR negotiating process however, non-Western views and traditions were taken into account, such as the Chinese, Marxist, Latin American and Islamic although Africa and Asia were hugely under-represented (Forsythe, 2000). Many African and Islamic cultures have claimed that human rights have historically been a part of their societies' thinking ... of equal and inalienable rights being accorded due to being human (as is the basis of the UDHR) was missing not only in traditional Asian, African, Islamic societies but from ear...

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