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2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has supplied us with a good pretext to turn once more to the double standards in the international domain of human rights, something from which the world community has so far failed to extricate itself. Not infrequently the problem is described as excessively political. In this context the terms are of secondary importance: what is really important is the fact that the human rights issue is used for political rather than humanitarian purposes.
Double standards are present in domestic policies; not infrequently the media are guilty of it. The same fully applies to national and international NGOs and interstate relations. Put in a nutshell the double standards can be described as politically biased approach to the human rights issue in specific conditions.
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