The Documentary Podcast
The Documentary Podcast
BBC World Service
Are Human Rights Really Universal?
27 minutes Posted May 9, 2016 at 9:00 pm.
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Human rights may aspire to be universal - they should belong to everyone, everywhere - but there has been resistance to them on philosophical or theological grounds by powerful states and world religions. Lawyer Helena Kennedy looks at these issues and the rise of the human rights movement since 1948.