Tom Gjelten, NPR; Boundlessly Idealistic, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Is Still Resisted
"Given the rivalries and violence that divide the global community
today, it is hard to imagine that on December 10, 1948, the nations of
the world approved, almost unanimously, a detailed list of fundamental
rights that every human on the planet should enjoy.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
the most sweeping such statement ever endorsed on a worldwide basis,
opened by asserting, "All human beings are born free and equal in
dignity and rights." It proceeded with 30 articles summarizing the
things to which everyone would be entitled in a world of genuine peace
and justice.
In the immediate aftermath of two horrifying
world wars, not a single member state of the newly created United
Nations dared oppose the Declaration, though several abstained on the
final vote. That so many of the rights remain unachieved on its 70th
anniversary testifies to the boundless idealism of the document's
drafters."
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