...human rights were universal, indivisible and interdependent and interrelated, while also recognising the significance of national and regional particularities...various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds. The Vienna Declaration underscored the clash of two principles — universalism and relativism. Western...

...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."26 Here, too, are echoes of a Confucian insistence on the need for sensitivity to an overall...

...Preparatory Meeting in Bangkok in April 1993. Recognizing "that while human rights are universal in nature," national and regional particularities and various...cultural, and religious backgrounds "must be borne in mind."124 This was stated in a different manner by the Mediterranean Center for Human Rights, which...

...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.' 67 Zhou Xuanwen, 'China's Traditional Thought' and 'Modernisation' (1948) May 1 , & ft n t * .la m...