Promoting Universal Human Rights: Dilemmas of Integrating Developing Countries

Abstract

It is within the context of globalization that developing countries' receptivity as well as resistance to global human rights standards must be understood. This Article suggests that an effective promotion of human rights in this context requires a deeper understanding of its effects on the most vulnerable people, and that to the extent that globalizing human rights standards overlook the complexity of local conditions and constraints, the promotion of the universal view of human rights will do little to ensure their realization in the developing world.