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Culture and Human Rights

Traditional international law since its begging (Peace of Westphalia, 1648) was only concerned with sovereign, independent states. International relations were understood as relations between governments. International law had no concern for legal status of individual within the state. Since its introduction after World War II, the modern international law of human rights has been permanently connected to the moral imperative: to re-establish human dignity and to render the legal status to it. The natural-legal basis of individual human rights was put on an international level by the founders of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. It is important to point out that in despite of the appearance of the rights in general in the West, they have been gradually adopted over the cultural boundaries and today they are viewed as a common heritage of mankind. Today, sixty years of human rights bring some radical change in international system and in the character of international law, including the cornerstone of international law-state sovereignty. Most people share the opinion that in cases of collision between human rights and state sovereignty, the fundamental human rights and universal human values have to trump the state sovereignty.

state sovereignity; human rights; culture

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