International
law concerning the rights of the child and
the rights of indigenous peoples and minority
nations also sets out rights which all individuals
should have as members of a world
society. Critics may argue that the dominant
conceptions of human rights embody the
global aspirations of the liberal-democratic
West; they may insist that the universal moral
imperatives which are inherent in these
developments lack sensitivity to the cultural
preferences of non-Western societies in an
epoch in which one of the main demands
within nation-states is for ‘group differentiated
citizenship’ – that is for different rights
for different groups in the same political
community (Young, 1990)