CEDAW is considered by many to be an international bill of rights for women, and has aimed to create universal ideals for women's rights and gender equality.

In anthropological terms this is sometimes described as cultural relativism, especially by those that have a tendency to argue toward universal ideals.

But even this universal ideal was based on a partial reading of the classics.

Fashion - political and otherwise - changes, but certain universal ideals seem to have remained fairly intact throughout human history.

Morality and culture are served by those who try to make of their society a model of how universal ideals can be applied to the immediate stuff of life.

The idea was to "celebrate peace, love and hope," described by the alliance as "universal ideals," available evidence to the contrary notwithstanding.

They emphasized the universal ideals of The Enlightenment, such as the equality of all men.

He was against narrow nationalist egocentrism and believed that nationality was just a form to achieve universal human ideals.

With the adherence to liberal and universal political ideals, evangelism, and perceived obligations to disseminate the norms internationally, the United States historically played its role as an agent of liberal change in international arena.

Perhaps its delusional of me, but I like to think of "human rights" - in substance if not in articulation - as universal ideals, to which most societies aspire in one form or another.