JOURNAL REVIEW “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights – Friends or Foes?” Human Rights and Gender Issues in World Politic Lecturer: Natasya Kusumawardani, SIP., M.Prof.Studs. (Hons.) Abu Rijal El Jihadi / 016201400001 IR Defense 1 2014 President University Jalan Ki Hajar Dewantara, Jababeka Education Park, Cikarang, West Java, 17550 www.president.ac.id 2016 Journal Reviewed: Reitman, Oonagh. (1997). “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International
The journal titled Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critique in International Human Right is basically talking about the similarity and the tension between two major groups which is Cultural relativism and feminism. They both critique about International Human right. The newest critique happened in United Nation Conference in 1994 that discussed about Family planning and the rights of women to control their own body. The Cultural relativist people oppose those action regarding it is violence their
feminists and cultural relativists criticize the international human rights. The feminist claims that international human rights is protecting only the male and that the rights doesn’t pay attention to women’s rights. But according to cultural relativists, international human rights only condemn the issues universally, whereas they think that the source of human rights is the culture itself, but people doesn’t pay attention to it. The paper addresses the opposition between feminist and cultural relativist
Like relativists, soft relativists believe that it can be wrong to one culture judge one culture with the standards of another, but unlike the relativists, they do not accept that there is no objective ‘truths’. As many ‘truths’ may be subjective, others are dependent on scientific evidence, like the belief that the Earth is flat for example, would not be accepted as ‘truth’ as it is a belief that can be easily disproved by scientific evidence. Even though they do not like accusing cultural beliefs