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The Significance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The record so far and future prospects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2010
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On the 10th December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which had been drawn up by a series of meetings of the Commission of Human Rights and the Commission on the Condition of Women as well as major discussions which took place during the first seven sessions of the Economic and Social Council. The General Assembly presented this Declaration “as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education … and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance …”
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- International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 6 , Issue 63 , June 1966 , pp. 287 - 296
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- Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1966
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page 287 note 1 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as we all know, springs from the same ideal as the founding and growth of the Red Cross. In fact, this Declaration, signed in 1948, has much in common with the Geneva Conventions which, originating in the last century, attained the most advanced stage of their development in 1949.
Mr. Albert Verdoodt is the author of a recently published book worthy of note entitled Naissance et signification de la Declaration universelle des droits de l'homme, which was commented on by the International Review in its August 1965 issue. In this book, the author points to the general trend of efforts since the Second World War towards the safeguarding of essential human rights in all circumstances in time both of war and of peace. The review World Justice (Louvain, December 1965) has just published a further study by Mr. Verdoodt on the same subject, and we have pleasure in quoting the gist thereof. (Ed.)
page 287 note 2 Preamble to the Declaration.
page 289 note 1 Collected lectures, 1951 (II), Academy of International Law, The Hague, pp. 340–345.Google Scholar
page 290 note 1 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A Standard of Achievement, U.N., N.Y., 1950 Google Scholar; id. 1958; id. 1962.
page 291 note 1 Document E/CN.4/L. 610.
page 293 note 1 U.N. Review, 09 1958, p. 8.Google Scholar
page 294 note 1 We would also mention that the Council of Europe devotes a number of research scholarships to the same subject.