Abstract
The article of “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights – Friend or Foes?” the article seeks to understand the similarities two critiques of international human rights made by cultural relativism and feminist and the second is how these two critiques have come to oppose each other in the realm of women’s international human rights. The paper begins by defining kinds of human rights, feminism, and universalism from cultural point of view in relation to international human rights. Then analyse the similarities and equations among feminism and universalism. And this paper also reviewing the challenges for women’s rights as human rights for feminism and also women’s universal human rights movement. The
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Historically, women’s movements have excluded minority and marginalized identities in an effort to elevate the dominant perception of “women.” The failure to comprehend differences within women evince a lack of understanding and awareness for women’s issues, plight, and circumstances. Take a look on the history it is important to focus on women, cultural relativist see human rights are common in Western culture. Therefore, Universal human rights appear to accommodate aspiration of western culture. Cultural relativist argue that human rights do not look in detail on how the culture work among wester and non-western because the western and non-western have a different culture. On the other hand cultural relativists reject human rights. And the cultural relativist argue that human rights should make a change from concern in individual right to become more concern about communal system. The West may consider universal norms in human rights are not applicable in other cultures. Human rights are argued to have developed from Western culture and thus they are inappropriate in application to other …show more content…
And also feminists argue that women should be included in the human rights protection system. In simple way, feminists say that they want to be treated equally with men on physically, thoughts, and workplace. In fact, it is argued that feminism and cultural relativism actually have many similarities, and if the two groups could see their differences, together they could provide a valuable critique of dominant human rights discourse. If cultural relativists and feminists stopped wasting energy on issues on which they are opposed and focused instead on issues they have in common, they could develop a powerful constructive human rights