Source: (2012) Human Rights Quarterly. 34:546-569.
States are free to choose their own means for implementing international
human rights obligations. Western states usually rely on legal means, in
particular legally enforceable individual rights. However, law does not enjoy
a monopoly. The receptor approach assumes that, especially in Eastern and
Southern states, international human rights obligations can be implemented
more fully through local social institutions. It identifies domestic social
institutions capable of meeting human rights standards and assumes that,
where these social arrangements fall short of human rights obligations,they will have to be improved and reformed. This should be done as much
as possible with the help of home-grown remedies to foster the cultural
legitimacy of international human rights standards. (author’s abstract)
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