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Article: 50 years: the practice of human rights: the importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for the Church.
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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Basic human rights -- most of us take them for granted. We do not even think about human rights until we hear of cases where they have been violated.
Can someone be brought to trial for violating human rights? The British judiciary is struggling with this question regarding General Augusto Pinochet of Chile. Are states accountable to the international community for their conduct regarding the rights of minorities? The Albanian population of Kosovo cried out for help.
Ten years ago, a lone man captured the imagination of millions. He stood in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square to protest the violation of basic human rights in China. People ...