The universality of human rights versus cultural relativism is the core civilizational divide

Evidence

The issues on which countries divided along civilizational lines included: universality vs. cultural relativism with respect to human rights; the relative priority of economic and social rights including the right to development versus political and civil rights; political conditionality with respect to economic assistance; the creation of a U.N. Commissioner for Human Rights; the extent to which the nongovernmental human rights organizations simultaneously meeting in Vienna should be allowed to participate in the governmental conference; the particular rights which should be endorsed by the conference; and more specific issues such as whether the Dalai Lama should be allowed to address the conference and whether human rights abuses in Bosnia should be explicitly condemned. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 522

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anticolonialists defended universal rights against cultural-difference exceptions — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 271; The idea of universal human rights is one culture’s tradition, not a self-evident creed. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1668; Human-rights legitimacy debates hinge on contested claims about their universal or colonial origins — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 128 (+1 more)