This unit provides an overview of the development of the idea of human rights and related concepts in a range of cultures and religions. It explores the development of human rights in the Enlightenment tradition and debates about the foundations of human rights. Other topics include cultural relativist critiques of human rights; non-western cultural traditions of human rights; the role and practice of dialogue; ideas of human rights in different religious traditions; colonialism and human rights; and Indigenous understandings of human rights and perspectives on rights protection, practice and education. -- Course Website
