A Human Right to Identity Formation? Identity, Politics, and the Universality of Human Rights

This paper will build on ideas I presented at the previous conference (in 2003) on human rights at Mofid University. In that paper, I argued that it is a mistake to view human rights as the expression of a specific culture or historical identity (e.g., that of the “West”). Instead, human rights a...

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Main Author: Richard T. Peterson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mofid University 2006-12-01
Series:حقوق بشر
Online Access:http://humanrights.mofidu.ac.ir/article_21290_d3377db7a6d231a99689af4414ab18cf.pdf