EQ2: Why do human rights vary from place to place? Typeit

There are significant variations between countries and also within countries.  When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was signed in  there were several countries which abstained.  One example from the Middle East is , which still continues to breach the human rights of women.  This means that women until very recently did not have the right to  although there have been some recent changes to these laws.  Saudi Arabia continues to use the death penalty as a form of punishment, which is a violation of Article 3 which is known as the .  This has been used against homosexual men as well as those voicing political differences of opinion and those from the Muslim minority group of Shias.  South Africa, which originally abstained from signing the UDHR, has subsequently done so in 1996 following the release and election to president of  which saw the abolition of the separatist laws in the country which enforced and which saw segregation of people based on their .