Threats to human rights

The daily Le Monde calls attention to the threats to human rights: "In the West the Declaration of Human Rights is the common political and moral point of reference. Elsewhere it is often seen as the tool of cultural and political imperialism. ... Three forces are today laying siege to the principle of fundamental human freedoms: ... Islamism ... which does not respect religious freedom or even any freedom outside the religious community; ... authoritarian states, which put national interests before civil rights, and finally tyrannical or bankrupt rogue states in which there are no rights whatsoever."

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