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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…
• As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute…
• The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations…
• As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list…
• The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and…
• I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life…
• The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these…
• As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts…
• How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly…
• In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end…
• Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the…
• 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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