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The Universal Declaration at 50: Changing the world?(Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
From:
The Christian Century
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December 23, 1998| Author:
Cassel, Douglass
| COPYRIGHT 1998 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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It has been 50 years since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Human Rights Commission, chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, drafted the Declaration in 1947. Many UN members rejected the notion of a universal treaty, because it threatened countries' domestic sovereignty. However, newsreel footage of Nazi concentration camps convinced millions that basic rights could not be left entirely to national governments. The Declaration was adopted as a resolution, not a ...
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