Today, the notions of human nature deployed by Enlightenment philosophers like Locke seem unable to provide a philosophical foundation for human rights that can possibly claim to be independent of historical and social circumstances. Locke's kind of "human rights foundationalism 'is now, as Argentinian jurist Eduardo Rabossi claims, both outmoded and irrelevant'. Richard Rorty (1999: 700 too denies the" existence of morally relevant transcultural facts' and agrees with i that it is not even. worth raising 'the question of "whether human beings really have the rights numerated in the Helsinki Declaration' (ibid .: 69). Yet ironically, just as the philosophical foundations of natural rights seems to have faltered and fallen apart, we have entered a. world where discourses, claims a charters of human rights proliferate and take on increasingly international impo tance. We now inhabit a global human rights culture '(Rabossi in Rorty, 1999).