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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
by United Nations
by United Nations
booklady's review
bookshelves: 2008, non-fiction
Oct 15, 2008
bookshelves: 2008, non-fiction
Recommended to booklady by:
Mike Chavez
Recommended for:
Everyone!
Read in October, 2008
Update: 12 November 2008
This December 10th marks the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, a very fine document praised by the Vatican and most of the world's nations. However, this year there is a push to include abortion as a fundamental right in the U.N. Declaration, a move which if passed, will cause the Catholic Church to withdraw its support from this otherwise fine document.
Abortion is not a human right, but rather a fundamental violation of the most basic human right, the right to Life. What is more, this new provision would violate an essential tenet of Catholic social teaching: "Nor must one forget the contribution that every nation is required in duty to make towards a true worldwide cooperation for the common good of the whole of humanity and for future generations also." (Compendium of Social Doctrine, #166)
If you visit this website and sign the electronic petition it will be delivered to the United Nations requesting they maintain the Declaration of Human Rights in its integrity and reject the motion to include abortion as part of the declaration. The 'Pro-Choice' movement is well-organized, with huge financial resources to draw on. The Pro-Life movement is larger but not so well-organized and poorly funded; it relies on word of mouth to spread. Please feel free to copy and paste this info or visit my blog for more information about this.
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All my life I've been hearing about human rights violations; I suppose I should have known such a document existed. I must have heard of it but wasn't listening...?
According to the Guinness Book of Records the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" is the "Most Translated Document" in the world. The UDHR is a direct result of the horrendous experiences of human oppression during the Second World War; it represents the first formal world-wide written expression of rights applicable to all human beings. Eleanor Roosevelt considered the Universal Declaration her life's greatest accomplishment.
It is a simple document consisting of a short preamble and a mere thirty articles, most of which seem so obvious they hardly seem worth recording, but it's just because they haven't been so regarded as 'obvious' they have needed recording.
Something everyone should read once in his/her life.
There have also been national and regional variations/affirmations of the original declaration including a European Convention on Human Rights in Rome in November of 1950. Fifty years later, Pope John Paul II gave this address to commemorate that historic occasion: ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER JOHN PAUL II
This December 10th marks the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, a very fine document praised by the Vatican and most of the world's nations. However, this year there is a push to include abortion as a fundamental right in the U.N. Declaration, a move which if passed, will cause the Catholic Church to withdraw its support from this otherwise fine document.
Abortion is not a human right, but rather a fundamental violation of the most basic human right, the right to Life. What is more, this new provision would violate an essential tenet of Catholic social teaching: "Nor must one forget the contribution that every nation is required in duty to make towards a true worldwide cooperation for the common good of the whole of humanity and for future generations also." (Compendium of Social Doctrine, #166)
If you visit this website and sign the electronic petition it will be delivered to the United Nations requesting they maintain the Declaration of Human Rights in its integrity and reject the motion to include abortion as part of the declaration. The 'Pro-Choice' movement is well-organized, with huge financial resources to draw on. The Pro-Life movement is larger but not so well-organized and poorly funded; it relies on word of mouth to spread. Please feel free to copy and paste this info or visit my blog for more information about this.
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All my life I've been hearing about human rights violations; I suppose I should have known such a document existed. I must have heard of it but wasn't listening...?
According to the Guinness Book of Records the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" is the "Most Translated Document" in the world. The UDHR is a direct result of the horrendous experiences of human oppression during the Second World War; it represents the first formal world-wide written expression of rights applicable to all human beings. Eleanor Roosevelt considered the Universal Declaration her life's greatest accomplishment.
It is a simple document consisting of a short preamble and a mere thirty articles, most of which seem so obvious they hardly seem worth recording, but it's just because they haven't been so regarded as 'obvious' they have needed recording.
Something everyone should read once in his/her life.
There have also been national and regional variations/affirmations of the original declaration including a European Convention on Human Rights in Rome in November of 1950. Fifty years later, Pope John Paul II gave this address to commemorate that historic occasion: ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER JOHN PAUL II
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Oct 16, 2008 11:26AM
Thank you for this informative review! Yes, this is something which everyone should read once. I should put it on my to-read list.
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Thank you! You are so sweet! ☺ I felt so foolish when I found out that there actually was such a document and it's been around for my entire life. Where have I been?! I think I thought all the rhetoric I always heard about 'human rights' was a U.S. thing. Surprise!
