...the need to avoid double standards in the implementation of human rights, as well as the recognition of national and regional particularities and various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds. The latter, in contrast, expressed a universalist perspective, stressing the importance of women's...

...Vienna Declaration of Human Rights that surely must inspire anthropologists to further reflection: All human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent...borne in mind, it is the duty of States, regardless of political, economic and cultural systems, to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms....

...Vienna Declaration of Human Rights that surely must inspire anthropologists to further reflection: All human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent...and religious backgrounds must be borne in mind, it the duty of States, regardless of political, economic and cultural systems, i promote and protect all...

...Comment no. 14, 14. ff. Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment no. 14, 14. of national and regional particularities and various...states, regardless of their political, economic and social systems, to promote and protect all human rights and fundamental freedoms."38 However, the move...

...dealing with such conflicts. For example, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action states that "the significance of national and regional particularities...cultural and religious backgrounds must be borne in mind",43 while at the same time calling for the elimination of such conflicting practices, ". . . the...

...UN associated bodies in the field of human rights. At the same time in its reference in Article 5 to the "significance of national and regional particularities...various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds" it gives hesitant acknowledgment to the sectorial elements existing in the world today. 6.04. The Universal...

...Conference on Human Rights also accepted the notion of universality, but added that one should bear in mind 'the significance of national and regional particularities...various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds.' Also in academic circles, the debate between adherents of 'cultural relativism' and of 'universalism'...

...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 backgrounds."4^ It is interesting to note that the ideological conflicts characteristic of the Cold...

...sense monolithic, and the people within the culture have individual identities. Accordingly, whilst the significance of national and regional particularities...religious backgrounds must be borne in mind, it is the primary duty of states to protect certain fundamental rights, such as the right to equal treatment...

...fact, the Vienna Declaration recognized that universality does not equal uniformity, and said that 'the significance of national and regional particularities...and religious backgrounds must be borne in mind'. Despite all the turmoil, the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights managed to reinforce that human...