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Human Rights and Wrongs, with Dr. Zara Khan

Imam Tom Weekly, a Yaqeen podcast

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The Paradox of Universal Human Rights

In India you have kind of critiques coming to universal human rights that says there's an emphasis on the nuclear family but that's not how we operate. And then if you look at like marriage laws right like the idea of consent it's very, it's very different, differently interpreted. In a place like India, where Muslims are a very large minority and really the case they have their own understanding of how marriage kind of interacts with these extended kin networks child labor has been another contention and contests that has been brought against universal human rights people younger than 18 in many parts of the world absolutely must work for villages and societies and families to survive and thrive.

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