LAWS 1000 Study Guide - Bilahari, Human Rights Watch, United Nations Charter

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Asia"s different standard: developments on human rights: united nations charter and the universal. Declaration of human rights: west emphasizes human rights in their foreign policies. In terms of human rights the west puts their national interests before the interest of other countries, though the world still turns to the west in times of a crisis. Asia"s developing standards: with economic change, east & southeast asia have started to change their approach on human rights, the more monetary flow a countries has, the more power it has. Asia"s unacceptable standard: bilahari kausikan believes that international human rights advocates tend to overlook other cultures in favour of their own, usually western culture which is. Individualistic as opposed to eastern culture which is communitarian. Kausikan argues that asia"s reluctance to adhere to western human rights ideals is for fear of threatening asia"s economy: however, his idea of western and eastern cultures is far too simplistic.