Visiting Professor, Pennsylvania University, Faculty of Law and Faculty member of Law and Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Science and Research Branch
Abstract
The major distinction of today's world is that both subjects of equality and divergence should be considered. In other words, the principles and rules of human rights should appear with the diversity and extension of the cultures, values, and beliefs of nations that are members of the United Nations. This study is discussing the question of how could we universalize the basic human rights laws with respect to national and ancient cultural beliefs of each nation? The author will testing the hypothesis in below by using the international human right conventions, the rights of reservation by other countries on these, the individual country's interpretations of human rights, and cultural relativity and theoretical and academic discussions on human rights. All cultures and countries have the bases for the expansion and universality of non-derogables human rights laws. For this purpose, the perspective of North and South countries has been taken under consideration and the universality of human rights generations are examined and criticized.