ABSTRACT
The United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights lays out a number of universal human rights, including the freedom of religion. Here is one critical affirmation:
What is a right? Human rights scholar John Warwick Montgomery describes rights as titles. Yet the very notion of title or entitlement expresses a source or justification of the title in question. It suggests being rooted in or springing from something-that there is some authority or power that grants such a status. He adds that we cannot define rights without the need to justify them (Montgomery 1986: 78-80).
