The Catch 22 of Human Rights in the Modern World

Olivia Roy: What gets included as a right depends on our definition of who's of what's who's a human in the first place. We depend upon the modern nation state to execute and guarantee those supposed the human rights for us, she says. She adds that we are humbled when we meet people from other parts of the world that don't have those same freedoms. "There is also a negotiation is a very different tradition of religious religiosity and religious freedom in the United States and France"