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Does the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration Even Matter?

U.S. secretary of state Clinton poses with ASEAN leaders during a meeting at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta September 4, 2012. Elizabeth Leader is a Research Associate for Southeast Asia at the ...
Davis Enterprise

Celebrate anniversary of human-rights declaration

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights will mark its 77th anniversary on Dec. 10. The document was adopted by the United Nations on Dec. 10, 1948, thanks in no small measure to the efforts of ...
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Reflecting on and Recharging the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after Seventy-Five Years

The horrors of the Second World War spurred countries throughout the world to come together to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). On December 10, this critical international ...
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Eleanor Roosevelt in the UN Chronicle (1946–1949): On the Making of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 2023 was an opportunity to re-examine the work of Eleanor Roosevelt and her colleagues in the United Nations as ...
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CSW69: Women Who Shaped the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

“We have to continue walking…We still have to cover a long distance, but we are in the right direction.” The event took place 20 March during the 69th Commission on the Status of Women, a panel of ...