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Civil liberties have yet to alleviate the world's misery

By John Hirst

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Civil liberties have yet to alleviate the world's misery

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is 60 years old this week, and just as relevant as when it was first conceived

By Francesca Klug

The most translated document in the world is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is 60 years old this week. Drafted as the first leg of an international bill of rights, it's a marvel it was ever produced. Writing in the aftermath of a devastating world war and at the beginning of the cold one, the drafters did not contemplate torture warrants or dabble with detention without charge. The atrocities they had witnessed convinced them that only an "international Magna Carta" for mankind, in Eleanor Roosevelt's words, could bring peace within and between nations.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on December 08, 2008 (boomark / email).

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