Human rights must have objective basis, Vatican official tells UN (CNS)

The UN needs to “rediscover the foundation of human rights,” the Vatican’s top foreign-policy official said in a video message to the UN Human Rights Council. Archbishop Paul Gallagher remarked that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is based on a shared recognition of inherent human dignity. Without that basic understanding, he said, countries are apt to recognize “rights devoid of values,” or “to create so-called ‘new’ rights that lack an objective foundation.”