Cultural Diversity as the Core of Human Rights Universality: Rediscovering the Spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 through the Right to Self-Determination

Diplôme Thèse Cultural Diversity as the Core of Human Rights Universality: Rediscovering the Spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 through the Right to Self-Determination eng 2022-01-20 2022-01-25 author Garcia Escobar Gabriela 915680 director Levrat Nicolas 23078 538 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:158809 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1588095 D. 1026 The prevailing concept of human rights universality in literature is based on the paradigm of liberal universality. Accordingly, human rights must be interpreted by prioritizing individualism, secularism, and autonomy in all domains of life and social institutions. Such an approach has been criticized for its lack of neutrality, reduced notion of viewpoint diversity, and top-down perspective. This research demonstrates that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 (UDHR) rather embodied a notion of pluralistic universality that also accepts communitarian or interdependent and religiously grounded worldviews, which is more compatible with non-Western cultures and some Western traditions. Therefore, this thesis proposes to rediscover the spirit of universality in diversity of the UDHR in the light of the right to self-determination, as a tool to encourage bottom-up approaches, intercultural dialogue, and global consensus as essential requirements to develop universally acceptable human rights standards by human rights mechanisms. Human rights Pluralism Cultural diversity Liberalism Dewey 341 98 Département de droit international public et organisation internationale 5E false b59574b5-c18e-4269-80b7-d2956021e75c Thesis Restricted phd dissertation UNIGE.pdf 3065948 application/pdf b84d68bec8253dcfb203937df1cc13f56340f946f4df4292684a53eac3ee7cc6 restrictedAccess Faculté de droit / Département de droit international public et organisation internationale

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