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Article: Fifty Years After the Declaration: The United Nations' Record on Human Rights
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- Ethics & Medicine
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- July 1, 2006
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Fifty Years After the Declaration: The United Nations' Record on Human Rights Teresa Wagner and Leslie Carbone, Editors. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, Inc; and Oxford, UK: Cumnor Hill, 2001. ISBN 0-7618-1842-1; 162 PAGES, PAPERBACK, $15.00
With the recently approved Human Rights Council replacing the widely discredited United Nations' Human Rights Commission, Fifty Years After the Declaration: The United Nations' Record on Human Rights is a timely and, indeed, a necessary read. Whatever one's interpretation of the United Nations' beginnings, history, or current functioning, a retrospective consideration of that body's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, published in ...