The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent - Brossura

Morsink, Johannes

 
9780812217476: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent

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Born of a shared revulsion against the horrors of the Holocaust, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has become the single most important statement of international ethics. It was inspired by and reflects the full scope of President Franklin Roosevelt's famous four freedoms: "the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear." Written by a UN commission led by Eleanor Roosevelt and adopted in 1948, the Declaration has become the moral backbone of more than two hundred human rights instruments that are now a part of our world. The result of a truly international negotiating process, the document has been a source of hope and inspiration to thousands of groups and millions of oppressed individuals.

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Johannes Morsink is Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Political Science at Drew University. He is the author of Aristotle on the Generation of Animals.

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9780812234749: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent

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ISBN 10:  081223474X ISBN 13:  9780812234749
Casa editrice: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 1999
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