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What is the relationship between human rights and truth?

Margaretha Wewerinke (Cambridge): Climate Change, Human Rights and the International Legal Order: The Role of the UN Human Rights Council. Will H. Moore and Ryan M. Welch (FSU): Why Do Governments Abuse Human Rights? Obiajulu Nnamuchi (Loyola): Toward a New Human Rights Paradigm: Integrating Hitherto Neglected Traditional Values into the Corpus of Human Rights and the Legitimacy Question. Louis E. Wolcher (Washington): Cultural Diversity and Universal Human Rights. Claudio Corradetti (Oslo): What Does Cultural Difference Require of Human Rights? Mark D. Jacobs and Lester R. Kurtz (George Mason): The Cultural Sociology of Human Rights. Dustin N. Sharp (USD): Human Rights Fact-Finding and the Reproduction of Hierarchies. Philip Alston (NYU): Against a World Court for Human Rights. Laura Van Waas and Monica Neal (Tilburg): Statelessness and the Role of National Human Rights Institutions. Christopher J. Fariss (PSU): Respect for Human Rights Has Improved Over Time: Modeling the Changing Standard of Accountability. Shai Dothan (HUJ): In Defense of Expansive Interpretation in the ECHR. Ali Pourghassab Amiri (Islamic Azad): Development of International Human Rights Regime: An Overview. Radical Transparency: Why we need an amendment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. From EJIL: Talk!, Marko Milanovic on foreign surveillance and human rights. Human rights without persons? Chiara Bottici reviews Third Person by Roberto Esposito. What is the relationship between human rights and truth? Samantha R. Williams reviews “The Truth About Rights” by Vittorio Bufacchi, and reviews Making Sense of Human Rights by James Nickel.