...considered in the context of a dynamic and evolving process of international normsetting, bearing in mind the significance of national and regional particularities and various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds.7 This was one of the most controversial provisions elaborated in the preparatory process...

...declaration pointed out that it must be considered within the "context of a dynamic and evolving process of national and regional particularities and various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds" (Tang 1995:2). National sovereignty was highlighted and the right to determine one's own policies independently...

..."[t]he universal nature of which is beyond question."35 The issue was put more precisely in paragraph 5: "All human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent...various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds 32. See eg T. Meron, Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms as Customary Law, Clarendon: Oxford, 1989;...

...rejection of "cultural" justifications for violating women's human rights. The statement reads as follows: While the significance of national and regional particularities...borne in mind, it is the duty of states, regardless of theit political, economic and cultural systems, to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental...

...these rights and freedoms is beyond question', went on to inject a note of ambiguity in the statement: 'the significance of national and regional particularities...cultural and religious backgrounds must be borne in mind' (Mayer 1995: 181). China, and states as different from China as Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan,...

...considered in the context of a dynamic and evolving process of international norm-setting, bearing in mind the significance of national and regional particularities...historical, cultural, and religious backgrounds." While paying lip service to all the major human rights treaties ratified by Asian governments, the...

...considered in the context of a dynamic and evolving process of international norm, setting, bearing in mind the significance of national and regional particularities...various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds." The analysis of statements made during the Vienna Conference shows that the universality of human rights...

...considered in the context of a dynamic and evolving process of international norm - setting, bearing in mind the significance of national and regional particularities...various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds." Zitiert aus: Bilahah Kausikan: An Asum Appnach to Human Rights, in: ASII. (The American Society of...

...of the UN General Assembly. Beijing Review, 21-7 Dec. 1992. " Beijing Review, 19-25 Apr. 1993. mind the significance of national and regional particularities and various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds'.18 Chinese delegates thus went to Vienna surrounded by those who were reasonably close...

...considered in the context of a dynamic and evolving process of international norm-setting, bearing in mind the significance of national and regional particularities and various historical, cultural and religious values." This relativistic view of human rights was unacceptable to the United States and other Western...