08 Aug What is the problem of enforcement related to human rights law

I’m working on a writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

1. What is the problem of enforcement related to human rights law? What is the political concept that makes enforcement difficult?
2. Hajjar starts by talking about women who survived Omarska–what does she argue about how human rights law affected these survivors? What did law fail to do and what did it enable?
3. An-Na’im identifies a basic paradox in human rights on p. 89. What do you understand this paradox to mean, in your own words? (You may paste here the direct quotation from the text, but please also digest this quotation to tell me what you understand it to mean).
4. An-Na’im argues that the concepts of universality and cultural relativism are tricky because actually all nations have some culturally relativist attitudes toward human rights. He says that one example is that the U.S. is hostile to one category of human rights. What is this category of human rights that the U.S. tends to avoid, and how is that an example of cultural relativism? Answer both parts.

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