"El relativismo cultural en el Examen Periódico Universal del Consejo de Derechos Humanos", de Roger Lloret Blackburn

¿Puede verse relativismo cultural durante el EPU? A los efectos de su análisis, Roger Blackburn utiliza los tres documentos principales del EPU (el informe nacional, la compilación de las Naciones Unidas y el resumen de interlocutores pertinentes??) y se centra principalmente en los países que los estudiosos identifican como pertenecientes al grupo de relativismo cultural (China, Colombia , Cuba, Indonesia, Irán, Irak, Malasia, México, Myanmar, Pakistán, Vietnam y Yemen). Extractos:

"[…] the research for this working paper leads us to the conclusion that all states of the HRC have good and bad human practises, and that they all accept the validity of the UPR and share the opinio juris that human rights do indeed exist."

"It follows from this working paper that the countries that today defend cultural relativism are substantially different from those identified by scholars in the last decades."

"Regrettably, the posture of many of the Western states that defended humanitarian aims and respect to human rights has become ambiguous, and this has resulted in the erosion of their credibility and in the reinforcing of cultural relativist fears."