She was noting that lawyers look at human rights law and they say "It's on paper. It's good. It's there."

她跟我说,律师们对于关于人权法的看法是,“这已经立法，在法律上有了一席之地，这很好，“

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And what human rights law making keeps coming back to is the human being, human dignity, the essence of the human.

而且人权法总是要回归到,人类本身，人的尊严，人的本质。

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When rights came out, there was in 1948 some general understandings but they've been complicated.

大概在1948年，人权法最初崭露头角时,人们对此有一些粗略的认知,这些认知逐渐复杂化。

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Some folks say to them in response, "but you know what, you, in your father's generation and mother's generation were at the table when this was drafted."

西方国家的一些人则回应说，“可是，你知道吗，你的父辈们是和我们坐在同一张桌子上,起草这个人权法的“

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It's not the question right now that human rights laws aren't adequate. They are beautiful!

现在，并不存在“人权法是不完整的“,这种问题，相反，它们是非常棒的！

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So they are trying to take the criteria that are already well established and human rights and saying we need to look again at what is torture, we need to look at imprisonment we need to look at all sorts of things related to human dignity.

如此一来，他们就在挑战,那些已经确立好的标准,以及人权法的内容,要求大家重新审视“酷刑“的定义，重新审视“监禁“的定义,还有所有与人类尊严相关的事物,还有所有与人类尊严相关的事物。

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On the ground, this oftentimes... It just does not trickle down.

在实际情况中，这有时。,要知道，人权法是不会消失的。

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They'll say human rights are ideas and concepts embedded in religious traditions, in cultures, in ethical traditions, and only recently have we decided to make human rights law out of it.

他们会说人权的思想和概念,根植于宗教传统，文化和道德传统中，只是近几百年来我们决定,从而确立了人权法。

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And I think for that reason that religion is maybe the largest challenge to the idea of human rights as it is currently incapsulated in human rights law, both out of the United Nations and also other international bodies and domestic bodies.

基于这一点，我认为宗教可能是,人权观念最大的挑战,因为它现在受到人权法压制，无论是在联合国,还是其他国际国内的组织里都是如此。

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