Human rights, participatory communication and cultural freedom in a global perspective

Abstract

There is evolving in our time a global civic culture, a culture which contains further elements to be incorporated in a new global ethics. The idea of human rights, the principle of democratic legitimacy, public accountability, and the emerging ethos of evidence and proof are the prime candidates for consideration… Today, the idea of human rights, though still challenged by recalcitrant governments. is a firmly entrenched standard of political conduct and will have to be a corner-stone of any global ethics. Javier Pérez de Cuellar (1995, pp. 36–37)