Human rights can be manifested differently

From: China Daily | Date: December 12, 2005| Author: Tian Dan | Copyright information

A unique outlook on human rights has taken shape in China, the largest developing country in the world. It is founded on the basis of the country's own experience in human rights development over the last two decades since embarking on the road of reform and opening up in the late 1970s. China has also absorbed rational human rights ideas from other cultures.

Human rights are acquired by people instead of being given by God. Human rights are a product of social and historical situati...

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