However, the tendency to frame all international resolutions in terms of human rights entails some fundamental risks. In the interview that follows, Keuleneer offers some trenchant criticisms of the growing tendency to view all political questions in terms of human rights. Just consider how the US Supreme Court discovered all sorts of unenumerated rights in the US Constitution. There is a clear danger in agreeing to discuss such issues in a human-rights framework. This is often forgotten.
People talking about human rights often think they make moral statements.
It is a confusion. Some people think they make moral statements, while others know very well that rights are bound to have legal consequences. We should be reminded that in traditional morality, rights don't exist as such. In traditional ethics, we talk about obligations, and obligations are derived from moral principles. A right is merely the other side of the coin of an obligation.