The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.
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The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement.
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.
I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don't respect rights.
Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.
The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.