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75 years of Universal Declaration of Human Rights: What has it achieved?
Business Standard
|December 11, 2023
Seventy-five years ago on Sunday, the UN General Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at a meeting in Paris - laying one of the foundation stones of the international order that emerged following the horrors of World War II.
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The declaration was proclaimed as "a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations." In practice, it hasn't always turned out that way over the subsequent decades.
What did it achieve?
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