world, it would be a good idea to divide the very basic foundations of human rights and its activism into three separate but perhaps linked approaches: First, the efforts of establishing and enforcing human rights laws, second, political and cultural basis, and third, the moral imperative.
Many ideas of human rights and the laws created to protect them are regarded as "abstract legal rights, thereby ascribing to them a meaning to equality devoid of consideration of the necessary pre-conditions for such rights' accessibility" (Pollis 200 11). What this implies is that the many laws about human rights that have been passed both by the UN and other national bodies are so generic in character that there always seem to be "escape clauses" for some. There are many examples to choose from: from equality for women (frowned on in many Third World nations, and- to some degree- even in India, Pakistan, and China) to the jailing of political dissidents (Cuba, Chile, China, et al). If there is one aspect of human rights law which is also still in serious conflict with national and local traditions it is the right
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