Vatican criticises UN efforts to create new human rights-CathNews NZ

Vatican criticises UN efforts to create new human rights

Friday, March 1st, 2013

The Vatican says the United Nations puts human rights at risk when it starts recognising “new rights” that stem from private interests rather than human dignity.

Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, said recent attempts to reinterpret certain terms in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to introduce “ambiguous expressions and ideological positions” ignore the foundations of human rights and threaten their universality.

He did not specify what “new rights” he was referring to, but the Vatican has previously criticised a 2011 resolution on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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