QUESTION ONE To deny people their human rights is to confront their very humanity. Former South African leader Nelson Mandela notably remarked. Human rights are understood to be fundamental rights to which a person is entitled by virtue of being a human being. Therefore are conceived as universal and the same for everyone (egalitarian). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly to respond to the atrocities that emanated from World war II, it represented the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are intrinsically entitled. Critics from different parts of the world have opposed the notion that human rights can be universal.