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The Documentary: Are Human Rights Really Universal?: Universality

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10/05/2016 GMT

Are Human Rights Really Universal?

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Are Human Rights Really Universal?, Universality

The human rights movement vs resistance to human rights by powerful states

The human rights movement versus the resistance to human rights by powerful states and world religions.

Human rights may aspire to be universal - they should belong to everyone, everywhere - but there has been resistance to them on philosophical or theological grounds by powerful states and world religions. Lawyer Helena Kennedy looks at these issues and the rise of the human rights movement since 1948.

(Photo: Algerian women hold a flag on which is written the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

The Documentary: Are Human Rights Really Universal?

Helena Kennedy QC looks at the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which proclaimed a set of rights for all humankind.

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