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Dima El Sayed* The Universality of Human Rights has been subject to criticism since their creation, in fact it accompanied their genesis. With globalization as a new paradigm, the question of the universality of Human Rights seems to be more present than ever. We do not propose in this article to rehash a debate that has been going on for years now, if not for centuries. As we see it, questioning the universality of Human Rights as it had been done since their creations, is proof enough of their relativity. The question to be raised is how relative are those, and whether or not the impossibility of achieving the universal application of Human Rights norms is reason enough to stop defending their universality. By studying the Arab world's interaction with Human Rights, first as an imported set of norms and then as their own legal production, this article seeks to underline that even if International Human Rights laws are not being "faithfully" applied in the Arab World, their existence as a set of norms is hardly questionable. What remains to be seen is the nature of the continuously reinvented International Human Rights Law, and how close they should
Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Online – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2011
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