Toward a Truly Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Talking Cultural Transformation with Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim

Abstract

Abstract This review considers Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim’s Decolonizing Human Rights and explores the book’s key implications for human rights practitioners and their organizations. The review also includes An-Naim’s reflections on the book as shared in an interview with Brian Phillips, Journal of Human Rights Practice Reviews Editor, in November 2022. The piece inaugurates a series of essays which will appear in the journal’s Review Section in the year ahead marking the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.