The need for a universal declaration of human values. (continuous support for the 'Universal Declaration of Human Rights')

Free Inquiry | December 22, 1996| | Copyright

All traditional ideological/religious systems are, at present, in acute conflict, if not in collapse. We need a system of agreed values that rises above all these wrangles and can be agreed as a moral blueprint for mankind. ... An International Declaration of Human Values should be prepared by the United Nations as a necessary partner to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

- Dr. James Hemming, at the Golden Jubilee Conference of the Progressive League, London. Reported in The Freethinker, London, May 1983.

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