ABSTRACT
Human rights and democracy promotion policies have internal and external dimensions. Internal human rights policy refers to how a state implements human rights norms and treats people in its territory, whereas external human rights policy refers to how a state seeks to influence human rights and democratic norms in other states. Further, both internal and external policies can be multilateral or unilateral by nature. Multilateral internal human rights policy allows for multilateral supervision of the domestic practices of that state. Multilateral external human rights policy means that a state promotes the establishment of international supervisory bodies, and uses multilateral instruments in its external human rights policy. Internal unilateral human rights policy values national sovereignty over multilateral human rights frameworks with supervisory powers. Unilateral external human rights policy means that a state actively promotes human rights in other states, but prefers to act outside multilateral settings.1
