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16 Brown J. World Aff. 9 (2009-2010)

handle is hein.journals/brownjwa16 and id is 1 raw text is: Are Human Rights Universal? LARRY COX JOHN YOO Executive Director Professor of Law Amensty Interntional USA Boalt Hall Larry Cox has been the Executive Director ofAmnesty International USA (AIUSA) since January 2006 Previously he was the Senior Program Officer for the FordFoundation' Hlu- man Rights Unit and served as Deputy Secretary-Generalfor Amnesty International John Yoo is Professor ofLau at University of California Berkley School ofLaw (BoaltHall). From 2001-03, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel. The two debated the universality ofhuman rights at Brown University Janus Forum on 19 February 2009. The Janus Forum is the student arm of the Political Theory Project (PTP). The mission ofthe PTP is to invigorate the study ofinstitutions and ideas that make societies free, prosperous, and fai. LmRY Cox It is possible for human rights proponents to give long, complicated and philosophical answers to the question of this debate. But the only answer that has ever made a differ- ence in the lives of, and changed history for, millions of people is an answer that was given more than fifty years ago by a very unlikely group-the government representa- tives of the members of the United Nations. That answer took the form of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This is a document that commanded no opposition, a document that President George W Bush has called a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty, whose standard must guide our work. It is a document that spells out political, social, cultural and economic rights that each government must recognize as part of the inherent dignity of all members of the human family. At the time the people who framed the Universal Declaration represented a fairly wide and diverse range of regions and traditions. They, very deliberately, did not root the rights in any particular culture, religion or philosophy; but treated them, as Thomas Copyright @ 2009 by the Brown Journal ofWorld,4ffairs FALL/WINTER 2009 * VOLUME XVI, ISSUE I

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