The publication "The Local Relevance of Human Rights", edited by Koen De Feyter, Stephan Parmentier, Christiane Timmerman and George Ulrich, offers the contributions presented at the international academic conference organised by ucsia in October 2008 in collaboration with the University of Antwerp and the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (eiuc). The authors examine the factors determining how appeals to human rights that emanate from the local level become successful. They further research the need for updating some of the ideas of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (udhr) in the face of local and concrete experiences of injustice.