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This past December marked the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). It should have been a moment of celebration, heralding the advances that have been made following the end of World War II.

But what rejoicing was possible in a moment when the ideals the landmark document was supposed to celebrate lay scattered under the debris in Kharkiv, Khan Yunis, and Khartoum?

The state of human rights globally prompts a sober reflection: the vision of universal human rights set important normative standards but was always dependent upon a Western-dominated liberal international order that rarely prioritized rights.

Moreover, supporters emphasized civil and political rights—drawing on Western traditions of liberalism—while expressing indifference toward the economic and social rights that mattered most to the world’s majority.

All rights were equal, but some rights were more equal than others.

Few of the conditions that existed when the UDHR c