This book argues that human rights cannot go global without going local. This important lesson
from the winding debates on universalism and particularism raises intricate questions: what are
human rights after all given the dissent surrounding their foundations content and scope?
What are legitimate deviances from classical human rights (law) and where should we draw red
lines?Making a case for balancing conceptual openness and distinctness this book addresses the
key human rights issues of our time and opens up novel spaces for deliberation. It engages
philosophical reasoning with law politics and religion and demonstrates that a meaningful
relativist account of human rights is not only possible but a sorely needed antidote to
dogmatism and polarization.
