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And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly…
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As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute…
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The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations…
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As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list…
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The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and…
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I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life…
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The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these…
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As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts…
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How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly…
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In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end…
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Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the…
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The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the…
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The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal…
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Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings,…
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There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the…
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It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will…
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After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to…
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There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of…
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A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given…
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