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Marking 70th Anniversary Of Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, UN Urges People To Stand Up For Their Rights
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published December 10, 2018 | 12:21 AM
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 9 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 9th Dec, 2018 ) :With the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reaching its 70th anniversary on Monday, the United Nations is urging people everywhere to stand up for their rights and to prevent its vital principles from being eroded.
In a statement, the world body said that while the landmark UN document had helped uplift the dignity of millions, human rights of many people are still being violated on a daily basis.
"The Declaration has shown itself to be as relevant today, as it has always been, and is applicable to situations and scenarios that could not have been foreseen at its inception, such as the need to govern artificial intelligence and the digital world, and to counter the effects of climate change on people," the UN said.
Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement that the document has gone from being an "aspirational treatise" to a set of standards that has "permeated virtually every area of international law." Ms. Bachelet said the she remains convinced that the human rights ideal, laid down in the Declaration, has been one of the most constructive advances of ideas in human history, as well as one of the most successful.
The human rights chief pointed out that women played a prominent role in drafting the document: Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the drafting committee, and women from Denmark, Pakistan, the Communist bloc and other countries around the world also made crucial contributions. Consequently, the document is, for its time, remarkably free from sexist language, almost always referring to "everyone," all or no one throughout its 30 Articles.
Celebrating the resilience of the human rights system, and the contributions of the Declaration to advancing human progress, peace and development, a team of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, in a statement published on Friday, echoed Ms. Bachelet's comments, noting that the protection provided by the international human rights system has increased including by addressing new and emerging human rights issues and demonstrating its capacity to evolve and respond to people's needs and expectations.� However, the experts detailed some of the many violations of international law and human dignity that are perpetrated on a daily basis in many countries: "Recent memory is replete with multiple examples of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Impunity reigns supreme in many countries undergoing conflicts or political upheavals, encouraged by narrow national objectives, geopolitics and political impasse at the United Nations Security Council." They also said that the upsurge of nationalism and xenophobia seen in countries of asylum, at a time of rising forced-migration, is "reversing the gains of international humanitarian cooperation of the last 70 years."�This year is the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the UN on 10 December 1948. The Universal Declaration � translated into a world record 500 languages � i" is rooted in the principle that "all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."�
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