COMMENT: Human rights as we know them: a western construct
Submitted by Editor on December 8, 2006 – 6:34 pmNo Comment
By Faisal Kutty
TORONTO, ONTARIO – Fifty-eight years after the universal declaration of human rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, the debate continues as to whether the documentis truly universal.
Upon its adoption on Dec. 10, 1948, former U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, chair of the commission on human rights, expressed her hope it would become “the Magna Carta of all mankind.” Ironically, as was the fate with the “great charter” of 1215, the declaration has not fully lived up to its name.
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