Welcome to Human Rights in Global Perspective! In this episode, Lachlan and Nin ask: where did our modern ideas about human rights come from? The episode also features a conversation with Ethan Blue, Associate Professor of History from the University of Western Australia.

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The music in this episode is the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, played by William McColl and the University of Washington Symphony, conducted by Abraham Kaplan. Available here, and used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License.