{"id":22865,"date":"2016-08-31T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T07:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/human-rights-in-world-politics-the-fallacy-of-enforcing-human-rights-to-diverse-cultures\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:29:36","slug":"human-rights-in-world-politics-the-fallacy-of-enforcing-human-rights-to-diverse-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/human-rights-in-world-politics-the-fallacy-of-enforcing-human-rights-to-diverse-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights in World Politics: The Fallacy of Enforcing Human Rights to Diverse Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Evangelos Koulis, Analyst KEDISA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. INTRODUCTION <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1999, the secretary-general of the U.N., Kofi Annan, felt emboldened enough to tell the General Assembly that their core challenge was to:<br \/>\n\u201cforge unity behind the principle that massive and systematic violations of human rights- wherever they may take place- should not be allowed to stand&#8230;.If states bent on criminal behaviour know that frontiers are not the absolute defense; if they know that the Security Council will take action to halt crimes against humanity, then they will not embark on such a course of action in expectation of sovereign immunity.\u201d(Press Release 1999)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kedisa.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Human-Rights-in-World-Politics-The-Fallacy-of-Enforcing-Human-Rights-to-Diverse-Cultures.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full analysis in PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Evangelos Koulis, Analyst KEDISA 1. INTRODUCTION In 1999, the secretary-general of the U.N., Kofi&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22866,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22865\/revisions\/22866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}