The interdependence of human rights is also embodied in international instruments. One example is the Declaration on the Right to Development which was adopted by the General Assembly of the U.N. on December 4, 1986. All human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent and interrelated. The international community must treat human rights globally in fair and equal manner, on the same footing, and with the same emphasis. The principles of universality and indivisibility, however, are not without critics.
Critics are either governments or individuals.
They say that human rights are Western and bourgeois-liberal constructs reflecting a Western world view, born out of European political history and imperialism. They also say that human rights are relative, determined by the political and economic circumstance of each country. The Chinese use this theory of relativity of rights to establish the priority of social and economic rights in their country. These criticisms do not persuade. The Proclamation of Tehran of 1968, the Bangkok NGO Declaration on Human Rights, the 1993 Vienna Declaration, the ratification of the two Covenants by more than 100 countries representing different continents of the world and the experience of peoples resonate that universal human rights standards are deeply rooted in many cultures and in many countries with different political and economic structures.