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Individual rights and respect for all cultures
- Source: The UNESCO Courier, Volume 2018, Issue 4, Jan 2019, p. 24 - 26
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- 05 Jan 2019
Abstract
How can individual rights be reconciled while respecting the cultural sensibilities of different human groups? For the American anthropologist, Melville J. Herskovits (1895-1963), this is the main difficulty facing the formulation of a world declaration of human rights. He elaborates on this dilemma in this excerpt from the text with the title "Statement on Human Rights", which he sent to UNESCO in 1947.
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