 But political thinkers and activists around the world can and do take different sides on many pressing human rights concerns that fall outside what Walzer terms the “minimal and universal moral code” (Walzer 1987, 24; Walzer 1994). This gray area of debate includes criminal law, family law, women’s rights, social and economic rights, the rights of indigenous peoples, and the attempt to universalize Western-style democratic practices. The question is: how can the current thin list of universal human rights be expanded to include some of these contested rights?