'Leg homo-emancipatie niet op'

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Op zaterdag 7 maart 2009 13:55 schreef RemcoDelft het volgende:

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Hier in Nederland hebben we wel degelijk straffen voor sex, een beetje afhankelijk van de leeftijd van een van de twee dan. En als we toch met seks in Afrika willen bemoeien, heb ik liever dat het 'neuk een baby en je bent van je aids af' wordt aangepakt, dan dat er homootjes geknuffeld moeten worden. Want qua pedofielen en veel-te-jong-zwanger-zijn voldoen ze daar ook niet bepaald aan onze normen.

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Op zaterdag 7 maart 2009 14:40 schreef RemcoDelft het volgende:

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In Nederland is het strafbaar. Maar het al dan niet strafbaar stellen is een morele keuze, net als het al dan niet strafbaar stellen van homoseksualiteit.

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Op zaterdag 7 maart 2009 17:39 schreef Aoristus het volgende:

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Het westen is niet de geldende maat. Koenders zal pas op de plaats moeten maken. Dat gedram leidt alleen maar tot aversie.

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A Cultural Context
The argument of cultural relativism frequently includes or leads to the assertion that traditional culture is sufficient to protect human dignity, and therefore universal human rights are unnecessary. Furthermore, the argument continues, universal human rights can be intrusive and disruptive to traditional protection of human life, liberty and security.
When traditional culture does effectively provide such protection, then human rights by definition would be compatible, posing no threat to the traditional culture. As such, the traditional culture can absorb and apply human rights, and the governing State should be in a better position not only to ratify, but to effectively and fully implement, the international standards.

Traditional culture is not a substitute for human rights; it is a cultural context in which human rights must be established, integrated, promoted and protected. Human rights must be approached in a way that is meaningful and relevant in diverse cultural contexts.

Rather than limit human rights to suit a given culture, why not draw on traditional cultural values to reinforce the application and relevance of universal human rights? There is an increased need to emphasize the common, core values shared by all cultures: the value of life, social order and protection from arbitrary rule. These basic values are embodied in human rights.

Traditional cultures should be approached and recognized as partners to promote greater respect for and observance of human rights. Drawing on compatible practices and common values from traditional cultures would enhance and advance human rights promotion and protection. This approach not only encourages greater tolerance, mutual respect and understanding, but also fosters more effective international cooperation for human rights.

Greater understanding of the ways in which traditional cultures protect the well-being of their people would illuminate the common foundation of human dignity on which human rights promotion and protection stand. This insight would enable human rights advocacy to assert the cultural relevance, as well as the legal obligation, of universal human rights in diverse cultural contexts. Recognition and appreciation of particular cultural contexts would serve to facilitate, rather than reduce, human rights respect and observance.

Working in this way with particular cultures inherently recognizes cultural integrity and diversity, without compromising or diluting the unquestionably universal standard of human rights. Such an approach is essential to ensure that the future will be guided above all by human rights, non-discrimination, tolerance and cultural pluralism.