The Democratic Republic of Congo a state with a universal declaration

The universality of human rights has had the main consequence of placing the individual at the centre of national and international concerns. At the national level, and particularly in the DRC, human rights are discussed everywhere. Every day we read stories of people fighting for human rights around the world, we talk about freedom of expression and religious tolerance, we make claims about what our Governments should and should not be allowed to do. Human rights are a language used to express our needs, our goals and what we perceive as our rights. Human rights are a way of thinking about tragic events, a lens through which our society can be viewed and criticized, a set of aspirations that form the core of liberal ideology. Human rights have become, in the words of Richard Rorty, "Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality," a truth in the world.