Abstract
Human rights occupy a central role in contemporary legal and socio-political discourse. Having been given concrete form in the American Constitution, and reinforced in revolutionary France’s Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, all flavours of Euro-American social, cultural and political thought have since been conditioned by a powerful conceptual trope: the expectation that individual freedom, underpinned by a legally guaranteed charter of human rights, provides the most effective means of constructing a just and equitable social order. This vision was further strengthened when the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, in the hope that it would provide a universal legal bastion against exploitation and oppression.
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