Development proved to be the best way to protect human rights

Editor's note: At the China-Europe Seminar on Human Rights in Rome on Sept 20, experts shared their views on the human rights development. Excerpts of some experts' essays follow:

Mutual respect essential to uphold human rights cause

Each nation has evolved, often over centuries, with its own history, institutions, traditions, ways of living and philosophy. Such evolution has not taken place in a vacuum but through a process of exchange and learning from other parts of the world. Yet each nation has developed its own characteristics.