Going back to Cassel (2009), he stated that one of the biggest similarities between the EU and the US is seen in terms of their emphasis on the centrality of human rights in their respective regions. He also added that the two aforementioned deeply embed this emphasis in their domestic and external policies. However, as also articulated by Henning in 2010, the EU and the US vary in their approaches in promoting human rights. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis on how the EU and the US contrast in their human rights promotion with a particular focus on their external or foreign policy. Moreover, a brief background would first be given on how human rights is related to the EU and the US’s foreign policies. With