The topic of the paper was the research of women's human rights in iliberal and liberal countries. An effort was made to point out the poor position of women's human rights in traditional communities where older men and cultural customs such as female genital mutilation predominate. Using a liberal-feminist perspective, the paper concludes, following the example of Martha Nussbaum, that this change must be internalized and discusses the legitimacy of imposing a value system, a potential double standard, and the legitimacy of international intervention in a broader sense. The paper also discusses the position of immigrants within liberal democracies and attempts to address their demands for cultural rights. The subject of the research was female genital mutilation as a serious violation of human rights, which points to the problem of insufficiently clearly specified rights of women within the international legal framework and its application. The main conclusions concern how liberalism could broaden its point of view and include more the issue of culture in the public space as opposed to the exclusively private sphere. The conclusion is also that certain human rights of women must be satisfied for the purpose of justice, and the work is partly based on theories of justice with practical implications. The answer to the research question is that this custom is a violation of women's human right to bodily autonomy, which is still not included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.