I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.
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The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.
As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights.
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.
The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.
As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general.
Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy, meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience.
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