ABSTRACT
This chapter will focus on key characteristics of modern international human rights, addressing the following questions:
• What does ‘universal’ mean in the context of international human rights? • Can all cultures and traditions have the same international human rights? • Do regional and international systems share the same vision of universal
rights? • What does the positive obligation embedded in human rights entail for
States? • What does it mean that universal rights are indivisible and interdependent?
