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Human Rights Categorise
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Strengths of Human Rights
Weaknesses of Human Rights
People who are facing oppression can demonstrate with greater ease that their treatment is not morally legitimate.
Their enforcement can often conflict with the principle of national sovereignty.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is regarded as a neutral, collective achievement, with the process of its establishment not dominated by any one nation state.
Nation states which violate human rights can usually act with impunity, even if they have signed treaties that in theory bind them to international law.
Not only nation states are responsible for human rights violations, but non-state actors too.
They are universal: applied to everyone as a right of birth.
Codified human rights are vague and open to interpretation.
The Universal Declaration on Human Rights was only passed by the General Assembly and so is not legally binding.
Human rights treaties have been ratified by virtually every single nation state.
Western powers are often accused of hypocrisy on human rights, undermining their credibility. US use of torture after 9/11 is an example.