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When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of... →
And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend... →
As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human... →
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate... →
The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations... →
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the... →
In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of... →
As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the... →
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the... →
Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first... →
The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also... →
The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the... →
I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious... →
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