On Mon, Mar 9, 2020, at 12:41, Chris Travers wrote:
> There's no reason to
> think that all the signatories of the UDHR for example meant the same
> thing by each of their understandings.

Indeed; they did not. More than that, a fact often overlooked by amateur human 
rights activists is that the UDHR is not a multilateral legal instrument; it 
was not passed out of the UN Security Council. Rather, it's an aspirational 
framework for other bilateral treaties between individual member states, which 
are where those laws get enforced. (And there are many.) The Declaration set 
the stage for what's basically a hodgepodge of interpretations globally. For 
better or for worse, member states all have their own interpretations of the 
rights enumerated in UDHR.

Michael Downey
United Nations Foundation

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