Noting that this year marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the pope told the UN General Assembly Friday that promoting human rights was "the most effective strategy for eliminating inequalities between countries and social groups and for increasing security."
But he also warned against "a relativistic conception" of such rights under which "the meaning and interpretation of rights could vary and their universality would be denied in the name of difference cultural, political, social and even religious outlooks."
