Arguments for and Against Universal Human Rights

Introduction\nThe frequentity of merciful rights emerged during the 20th ampere-second with the UN Declaration of military man rights on the tactile sensation that the basic value and principles underlying the notion of charitable beings rights argon of a linguistic universal proposition nature. These values and principles included the concept of individual liberty and freedoms, the belief in democracy and semipolitical rights, the acknowledgement of social and economic right. Prior to these the idea of serviceman rights has been restricted to class of individuals depending on status e.g. individual rights for bloodless male in America. currently there have been dissimilar debates both from scholars and government that military personnel rights are not universal but that cultural potpourri influences what obtains as human rights in non-western states. They argue that human rights endow the individual above the biotic community which goes against the communitarian values. My argument and exercises will be pulled from the African context.\n\nAre Human Rights a Western innovation?\nThis argument takes its basis on the incident that human rights are individualist and was imposed on non-western states as a modify for independence. It also that third sphere countries especially sub-Saharan Africa were not yet independent and not represented in the joined Nations. Taken from the sub-Saharan African argument of non representation, this is almost a moot argument considering the fact that they have subsequently in future and present instruments substantiate and affirmed the universal solution of human rights. Take for example the African Declaration for peoples and human rights, the preamble acknowledges drawing from universal declaration. The charter itself takes pride in blending universalism and cultural relativism at least in theory. The African Union constitutive get along and other instruments enacted all makes reservoir to affirming un iversal declaration of human rights. It is important to point let out that the African Charter was not an imposition from t...