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Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

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.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

Even though we may focus first on the rights of our own country, that does not mean that we should disregard the rights of everyone else.

In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.