According to the cosmopolitan tradition, the democratic government of a group by itself, following the principle of popular sovereignty, should include the whole of humanity (and also the future generations) to be truly democratic. 
However, within contemporary local democracies, most violations of human rights are caused by identity issues. In this context, the priority of the Inter-American System of Human Rights, for instance, is to monitor the demands of excluded groups who are affected in terms of rights to participation and expression, who suffer social or institutional violence, and who have difficulty accessing the public sphere, the political system, and social or legal protection. The same happens in the European Court of Human Rights, where European democracies are accused of discrimination against Roma and ethnical minorities, violation of social and economic rights of non-national individuals, expulsion of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers who run the risk of having their human rights violated if expelled to their original country.