If human rights are universal, why is the funding for rights advocacy groups so one-sided?

Human rights are universal, and everyone, in theory, should be supportive. However, when raising funds for human rights, the money tends to come almost exclusively from Western governments. Why is that?

Read our piece in the Review of International Political Economy: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09692290.2015.1095780

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James Ron is an international research consultant who taught for 22 years in higher ed in Canada, Mexico, and the US. Before that, he was a consultant for Human Rights Watch and other international agencies and reported for the Associated Press.

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