Eleanor Roosevelt addresses the UN on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Eleanor Roosevelt addresses the United Nations on the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
SIXTY YEARS ago world leaders met in Paris to set out a new direction for humanity. The world had just emerged from a brutal war in which tens of millions died, the holocaust and other unspeakable acts of atrocity were committed and two atomic bombs were dropped on civilian populations. In 1948 the new Cold War was beginning, Gandhi was assassinated and apartheid laws were introduced in South Africa. Much of the world still laboured under the yoke of colonisation.
Set against this background the vision document which politicians unanimously agreed on December 10, 1948, was a triumph of hope and optimism. Sixty years later, this Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) remains one of the most important documents of the 20th century. It has become the inspiration behind a global movement, and sets the benchmark for the whole world to attain, and against which we all can be judged.
Proclaiming in ringing terms that "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights," the 30 articles of the UDHR set out in unprecedented detail the standards of dignity, respect and justice to which everyone is entitled, simply because they are human.
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2471792.0.60_years_of_hu...
SIXTY YEARS ago world leaders met in Paris to set out a new direction for humanity. The world had just emerged from a brutal war in which tens of millions died, the holocaust and other unspeakable acts of atrocity were committed and two atomic bombs were dropped on civilian populations. In 1948 the new Cold War was beginning, Gandhi was assassinated and apartheid laws were introduced in South Africa. Much of the world still laboured under the yoke of colonisation.
Set against this background the vision document which politicians unanimously agreed on December 10, 1948, was a triumph of hope and optimism. Sixty years later, this Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) remains one of the most important documents of the 20th century. It has become the inspiration behind a global movement, and sets the benchmark for the whole world to attain, and against which we all can be judged.
Proclaiming in ringing terms that "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights," the 30 articles of the UDHR set out in unprecedented detail the standards of dignity, respect and justice to which everyone is entitled, simply because they are human.
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2471792.0.60_years_of_hu...
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In those days, Americans knew how to pronounce English properly - Eleanor was an American and spoke the way they spoke then.
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