On the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Themes
Rights vs. Privileges
Those of us in the United States spend a lot of time talking about our rights—and we're lucky because our government gives us a lot of them. But when Eleanor Roosevelt was trying to light a fire...
Freedom and Tyranny
It's impossible to talk about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights without mentioning the Holocaust and all the other nasty human rights violations that happened throughout the 20th century. A...
Memory and the Past
The phrase "history repeats itself" is a cliché for a reason—in most cases, if we don't study the past and try to learn from it, the same stuff will happen again.That's why you're here—to lear...