Peter

I’m surprised the discussion didn’t start with an assessment of the UDHR. The Islamic world dissented on its universality at the UN but the degree of consensus is quite high in terms of international law, as distinct from individual(istic) postmodern relativistic judgements.

There’s also Responsibility to Protect and an assessment of the points at which sovereignty can be breached by states in situations of gross atrocity crimes like genocide. The tripwire is fairly robust— UNSC agreement.

I wrote a related piece here: http://web.ncf.ca/fs766/Collins_CharterHumanRights.pdf

You need a political scientist for this conversation!

Robin