From Arab News

By Louise Arbour

A yearlong campaign was launched yesterday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which falls on Dec. 10.

This campaign will engage the whole UN system in promoting the declaration’s ideals and principles of justice and equality for all of us which changed the landscape of international relations and gave substance to the aspirations to freedom and dignity of humankind.

But the celebrations are meant not only as tributes to an extraordinary human achievement. They will also be reminders that the goal of making the declaration a living reality for everyone has yet to be realized.

There is no doubt that we have come a long way on a road that the UDHR framers have prefigured. Today, a complex web of international instruments has fleshed out the content of the baskets of rights that the declaration spelled out, including civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. All states have ratified at least one of the core nine international human rights treaties, and 80 percent have ratified four or more.

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