Human Dignity:A Human Rights Consensus Transcending the Dispute between Universalism and Relativism——Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
The dispute between universalism and relativism in the field of human rights has a long history,and the Universal Declara-tion of Human Rights attempts to unify diversity and difference under the banner of dignity in the form of a programmatic document for all mankind.However,it was not until almost half a century later that the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action first explicitly pointed out that human dignity is a human rights consensus.The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action established human dignity as a human rights consensus in the form of an international document for the first time.The Vienna World Conference on Human Rights and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action also serve as vivid demonstration of achieving human rights consensus through in-tercultural dialogue.In the future,making human dignity a basic concept of human rights with substance and thickness should be the o-rientation of our further endeavor for human rights.
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