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Mr Zenawi says that groups such as Human Rights Watch interpret human rights too narrowly.

But other countries have been critical of the UK's Brighton Declaration, opposing its emphasis on expanding the so-called margin of appreciation – allowing national courts to interpret human rights in different ways – and, in particular, introducing stricter criteria to reduce the number of cases reaching the court in Strasbourg.

Claims that the UK should be given a greater "margin of appreciation" – or discretion to interpret human rights according to the specific situation within the UK – have been at the root of many arguments in favour of a British bill of rights.

"We constantly lecture China about international norms over its behaviour in the South China Sea, but when it comes to the findings of the committee, Australia just responds, 'We disagree … we interpret human rights differently.' "If you're making up your own version of international law, it shows a complete disrespect, even a contempt, for the international system".

This is reflected in contemporary narratives about sex workers' rights and the ways in which different actors interpret human rights law.

We know how the European Parliament and the European Union interpret human rights from Yugoslavia and elsewhere.

It accused some world powers of interpreting human rights according to their own "self-interest" and causing "irreparable harm" to the nations of the region and their own countries.

The court, while primarily an organ of the convention, nonetheless has jurisdiction to interpret the human rights provisions of other treaties, including those of the OAS Charter.

Once again, vandalism is interpreted broadly, human rights groups say, including acts of civil disobedience.

Ministers have highlighted the massive backlog of cases building up in Strasbourg and implied that the "margin of appreciation" allowed to each country in interpreting the human rights convention in different national ways is too narrow.

Nor is it easy to understand what the prime minister, the home secretary and their advisers mean when they threaten to legislate to limit the judges' role in interpreting international human rights obligations or to "restore the primacy of parliament".