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Critically examine the notion of “Asian Values” in the context of the on-going debates on human rights.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 20 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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"Asian values" was the most politically consequential form of cultural relativism in the 1990s. Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore and Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia advanced it, and it was formalised in the Bangkok Declaration (1993) before the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights. At Vienna, Singapore's foreign minister Wong Kan Seng cautioned that universalism becomes…

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