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"Human rights, and more specifically due process, are not 'Western', they've just been formulated there." Not even that. I'm not sure to what do we refer exact
by restalis 10y ago
"Human rights, and more specifically due process, are not 'Western', they've just been formulated there."
Not even that. I'm not sure to what do we refer exactly by (western) "human rights". Is it the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? That was not "western", as the United Nations General Assembly, which adopted it, had equal representation of all member nations, including Philippines. Is it something else, something older, like the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, passed somewhere in the French Revolution? Well, we can find less "western" versions before that all over the world and history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_human_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_human_rights