ABSTRACT
Universality is at the core of the global human rights regime. The foundational document is the UDHR,1 the six decades of which this volume commemorates. The first operative paragraph of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of the 1993 World Human Rights Conference goes so far as to assert that ‘the universal nature of these rights and freedoms is beyond question.’2 And indeed this is close to true at the level of interstate relations. Virtually every state acknowledges an authoritative body of international human rights law that flows from the UDHR.
