Human rights, despite being an example of values accepted almost universally, seem incomplete and insufficient, since, by placing exclusively the emphasis on individual rights, they relegate to the background the responsibilities of people towards others. Therefore, human rights are difficult to accept by many of the traditional Eastern cultures that emphasize, instead, family and community duties. Thus, in order to achieve the desired goal of world peace, a global intercultural and interreligious consensus should be sought in a shared core values that harmonize traditional cultural values with modern democratic ideals.