| Administrative law - 1984 - 328 pages
...Europe, Asia, Africa, and in our Western Hemisphere itself in defense of the basic human rights. When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, Americans hoped that the Jeffersonian vision was about to be realized at last. The Universal... | |
| Administrative law - 1987 - 380 pages
...others, especially in our own century, have lost the liberty they once enjoyed. Thirty-eight years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Yet many of the governments that voted for that Declaration are flagrantly ignoring the principles... | |
| United States - 1986 - 534 pages
...others, especially in our own century, have lost the liberty they once enjoyed. Thirty-eight years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Yet many of the governments that voted for that Declaration are flagrantly ignoring the principles... | |
| S. Prakash Sinha - Law - 1971 - 384 pages
...Council." Charter of the United Nations, US Treaty Series 993. 10. 1948 Yearbook on Human Rights 467. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. UN Doc. No. A/810, Gen. Ass. Off. Rec., 3rd Sess. (1), Resolutions, at 71. With... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - Human rights - 1980 - 614 pages
...the human rights of all peoples was taken nearly 31 years ago on December 10, 1948. For, on that day, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Eleanor Roosevelt delivered a passionate speech before the General Assembly in support of the Declaration.... | |
| Quang Trung Thai - History - 1990 - 144 pages
...active acts of repression that place their victims in a life threatening situation. Re-education Camps The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. According to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Vietnam became... | |
| Fox de Cardona Fox - Art - 1997 - 156 pages
...liberalism's support for the universal desirability of democracy and the rights of free speech. Article 19 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in 1948.' Much of the post-war struggle over the distribution of ideas and information in the world... | |
| Tore Fr ngsmyr, Irwin Abrams - Political Science - 1997 - 276 pages
...1977 to the organisation Amnesty International. In the nearly thirty years which have passed since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations, positive forces in many nations have sought to bring its ideals to life. But during this time the world... | |
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