Do human rights organizations import their ethics from religion or science?

Answer 1

It depends on the organization.

I mean the Catholic Church advocates the human rights of an unborn fetus but not the mother...?

The United Nations obviously benefits from various religions. The Right to Education has foundings in Buddhism.

As for science,,,,
well they are responsible for finding more humane ways to carry out the death penalty...like gas chambers and the electric chair...of course it will never be a humane punishment.

Scientific ethics aren't the same a human ethics, they relate more to research, methods, and reporting...And often scientist use questionable ethics in all three!

Answer 2

What makes you think that they import their ethics at all?

And science doesn't deal with ethics.

Answer 3

What human rights organizations are you referring to specifically?

Answer 4

both are human rights violations and the "reward" from male circumcision do not exist. Male circumcision in the U. S. became began to sidestep masturbation and to make sex a lot less relaxing for adult males. yet human beings in the U. S. opt to be ethnocentric so that they look on the Africans (with reference to lady circumcision) as Evil and backwards, even as our personal immoral circumcision of male children is defined away by nonsense.

Answer 5

Yes, from the U.S. where we feel that all men are created equal and deserve dignity and respect until a person shocks our conscience or is not in line with our premises of culture.

Answer 6

Defiantly from Faith(Judaism/Christianity) because science is what brought us to racism which told us its the survival of the strong.

Answer 7

Why does it have to be one or the other?