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Topics to Choose From:

  1. Arranged Marriage

  2. Treatment of Women in Some Muslim Nations

  3. Polygamy

  4. Female Genital Mutilation

  5. Child Labor

  6. Honor Killings

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), a common standard for all peoples and all nations of fundamental human rights to be universally protected. 

As you read, consider this: Does the UDHR represent an ethnocentric perspective?

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