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Challenging the Universal Declaration: Human Rights and the UN Advisory Services Program

This paper examines opposition to the vision for human rights set out in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its focus is the 1966 seminar on human rights in the developing world, held in Dakar, Senegal. Alongside the expected expressions of support for the Universal Declaration, Dakar also hosted a striking level of hostility toward the rights it contained, challenging the very foundations of universality. The case of the seminar reveals the other side of the often triumphalist history of human rights, and the ways in which transnational collaboration could facilitate the circulation of ideas deeply hostile to individual freedom. This paper has been peer-reviewed.