“Three Rights Traditions Walk into a Bar in Jakarta”: Inalienable Human Rights from the Perspective of Different Civilizations

Many people assume that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 was an exclusively or primarily Western project, imposed on rest world by European and American powers emerged victorious from World War II. Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon’s 2001 book, A Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt Rights, suggests otherwise. It not great but small pushed hardest for a declaration rights. And it often powers—and one must acknowledge, dominated ancestry—that did like idea being around politically economically weaker inhabitants Global South, who were just beginning to emerge centuries colonialism other forms oppression.1