Judith Blau is professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and served for ten years as chair of the "Social and Economic Justice Undergraduate Minor". Her field is Human Rights, which is a normative approach to human societies, collective goods, political institutions, economy, and democracy. Drawing from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international human rights treaties and conventions, Human Rights axiomatically asserts the inalienable and equal rights of all humans. One challenge everywhere is to ensure equal rights to those who are denied them owing