This chapter reviews the evolving meaning and significance of the central terms for communicating the value of heritage. It proposes a heuristic model for rights-based heritage interpretation. The chapter suggests that striving for this interpretive balance will not simply communicate human rights values but also help more effectively to embody them. It explains how a recognition and careful balance of all the approaches are the keys to the effective development of rights-based World Heritage. The chapter refers to the enactment of contemporary identity by members of a particular ethnic group, religion or people as an act of collective allegiance, drawing on traditional visual motifs, places and objects to assert contemporary legitimacy. In addition to the need for greater diversity in officially recognised cultures, Farida Shaheed made additional important observations that significantly expanded the linkage between cultural heritage and human rights.