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Are Human rights and multiculturalism compatible? In 1993 the Vienna declaration made at the World conference on Human rights stated that 'The universal nature of all human rights and fundamental freedoms is beyond question.'(Vienna world conference on human rights, 1993) This essay will aim to answer whether in this world of cultural diversity, it is possible and acceptable for Human rights to be a universal system or if multiculturalism means that universality of rights is an impossibility. It will focus on the Western individualist approach that the human rights system incorporates and see how this bias may affect the acceptance and compatibility of human rights in the East. It will also look to question whether certain human rights are fundamental across cultures and others incompatible; or if Human rights can be truly universal despite or by incorporating diversity in both the political and civil laws and the economic social and cultural...

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