The Careless Use of “Human Rights” Will Soon Reduce Them to Ridicule – conversation with Hurst Hannum
“The mindless proliferation or invention of rights to address ever-more-specific groups and issues also undermines the principle of universality that lies at the core of international human rights. In most cases, the major problems in the world today do not require new rights but rather implementation of those that are already recognized” – Hurst H