Confronting both our histories and our future: 1998 winners of the Myers Outstanding Book Award

From: Peacework | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

The United Nations recently commemorated the 50th anniversary of the coming together of leaders from diverse countries, language backgrounds, "races," ethnicities, and religious faiths to forge a commitment to common standards of human dignity. In 1948, three years after the end of World War II, these initiators of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights met to denounce dehumanizing oppressions and build protections against them.

In the struggle to meet those standards we have the help of the Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights and Bigotry, in Boston. This is the 14th ...

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