Human Rights in a Global Context
Analyzing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and contemporary violations.
Key Questions
- 1Are human rights truly universal or culturally relative?
- 2How effective is the United Nations at enforcing human rights?
- 3What is Canada's record on international human rights?
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