Shubhanga

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as it claims may not truly be Universal. The "Universality" has been declared on the agreement of only forty-eight countries in 1948. In today's date, with 195 nations of which 193 are UN identified, the representation on the declaration is evidently inadequate. Here, the drafting of the Universal Declaration was done by the representatives of Australia, Chile, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, China, France, Lebanon, and of course the United States. Suggesting that most countries that were in power, are a part of the Global North, or the Western nations, therefore representing mostly those values.
Those western values would be the fact that these rights give excessive importance to an individual, thus to create an entire concept for just that. An example of an alternative value system could be Asian values, which would take a more communal and authoritative standard as compared to this one. Other ideas of cultural relativism also may play a role, therefore, coming up as a collective hundreds of cultures from all around the globe; which in no way is ever going to result in a truly Universal set of Human Rights.
Regardless of whether the signatories for the decleration have been added upon, the universality of the western dominated idea of Human Rights is questionable.
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