I've worked in humanitarian aid for a decade, mostly in conflict zones, and I keep bumping into the same tension: we push universal human rights standards, but local communities often see them as Western imports that ignore their traditions. Last year in a village meeting, an elder told me that our insistence on individual rights was breaking down their family structures, and honestly, I didn't have a good answer. Are human rights truly universal, or are they just a product of a particular cultural history that we're trying to impose on everyone else?