How a state treats its own citizens used to be its own business. Now, members of the international community are claiming that the humane treatment of individuals is fundamental to human rights. (a) Are there such things as universal human rights? (b) What should they include? (c) Why do you think the United States hasn't ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural
Rights?
What will be an ideal response?
There are at least three arguments against making the promotion and enforcement of
human rights a responsibility of the global community. Realists reject promoting
human rights because, as former Executive Director of Amnesty International William
Shulz explains, they "regard the pursuit of rights as an unnecessary, sometimes even a
dangerous extravagance, often at odds with the national interest.". Statists or legalists
reject protecting human rights in other states because it represents an unwarranted
intrusion into the domestic affairs of others and an infringement upon state
sovereignty. Relativists or pluralists view human rights promotion as a form of moral
imperialism.
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What will be an ideal response?