{"id":5964,"date":"2016-05-09T03:05:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T03:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/introduction-to-human-rights\/?page_id=5964"},"modified":"2016-05-09T03:05:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T03:05:52","slug":"are-human-rights-universal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/introduction-to-human-rights\/modules-1-3\/module-three-the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights\/are-human-rights-universal\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Human Rights Universal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"reading\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/introduction-to-human-rights\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_reading.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Activity Four (Required Activity)<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In Module One we learned that there are five essential characteristics of human rights. 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