ABSTRACT
Human rights are a worldwide Equality Project. Free trade and unregulated markets produce gross inequalities and thereby undermine the Equality Project. The Equality Project has matured from the late eighteenth century, when Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence and France declared the Rights of Man and the Citizen, to the mid-twentieth century, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Mona Younis once remarked, 'A life free of fear and want based on security and equality is not a utopian dream. It is law international human law'. At the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights, the world's nations affirmed the principles set out in international human rights law and the continuing importance of their codification. Recognizing the rights of others is an ethical principle, and it also needs to be reinforced through cosmopolitan relationships cast far and wide.
