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Article: The age-old dream: freedom, justice, dignity for all. (World Conference on Human Rights)
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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Forty-four years ago, the UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a comprehensive document eloquently sketching the inalienable rights with which all of us are born.
Since then, the UN has slowly and methodically agreed on a body of human rights covenants, protocols and declarations, further defining our collective economic, social, cultural, political and civil rights and creating a system to protect them.
While few dispute the enormous progress made in spelling out these rights, it is tragically apparent that human rights continue to be violated everywhere, often on a massive scale.
This contradiction lies at the heart of the ...