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    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document that was written by the United Nations in 1948 spelling out the rights that each human should be entitled to. The declaration initially describes general human rights in the preamble then describes in each specific right in thirty additional articles. After reading the universal declaration‚ I found that the central points are described in the preamble and throughout the various articles. The declaration addresses points such as the right

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    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article XXVI: Right to Education The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted in 1948 and one of the articles‚ article XXVI deals with protection of the fundamental rightsright to education: (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free‚ at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available

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    80 meetings‚ the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created. The final obstacle for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was approval from the United Nation General assembly. In order for the document to be approved it required two-thirds of the vote. On December 10‚ 1948‚ the document was adopted.1 The United Nation has not been successful at enforcing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights because the underlying values in the document are not actually universal. Different states

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    this declaration‚ doubts and reason why they should not have to come in mind as well. First‚ I question what nation’s idea was it to create this declaration and did all nations on this planet agree to the amendments and rules put into it. I also ask if all nations swore to follow it. Because like the question says‚ the United States does not follow this document‚ which means that the United States does not respect; and I can think of other nations and peoples who do not follow the declaration as well

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    Paper 2 9-30-12 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights “THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations‚ to the end that every individual and every organ of society‚ keeping this Declaration constantly in mind‚ shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures‚ national and international‚ to secure their universal and effective recognition

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    The main purpose of the thirty articles from “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights”‚ created on December 10‚ 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly‚ is to promote a deep respect to the human rights and fundamental freedoms of each individual‚ belonging to whatever “race‚ color‚ sex‚ language‚ religion…” (UDHR‚ Article 2) or any other status‚ and create a universal guaranty that it will enhance the recognition of these human rights and freedoms; it represented “the hope for a new future”

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    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights‚ came as a reaction to the dreadful damages of the Second World War. This declaration was built according to the fundamentals of equality. It lists us all of our rights‚ all of our freedoms and how we can express them freely. It was constructed on the basic fact of it being just‚ equal to all‚ and right. However‚ are all articles applicable on all of mankind? Or can some of these be questioned? Generally‚ all of these articles should be applicable

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    around the world but also impacted the human rights. Prior to Universal Declaration of Human Rights‚ the word human right was not even properly defined in most of the countries around the world. There was no item or charter to serve as the base for human rights and there was no legal framework to hold countries and government accountable for human rights violations. People used do be tortured‚ killed‚ and jailed without considering any sort of human rights values. Finally‚ the time has come when

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    The Universal Declaration of Human rights declared that all human beings are born to be free and equal in dignity. People have a right to live‚ choose what they want and defend their rights. But nowadays‚ a person who is in the highest position is the one who did not follow those rules. In Article 3 said that people has "The right to live free" but if you are accused that you are an addict‚ you will be killed. People in Philippines killed by that reason even if you are innocent. They did not prove

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    people forget the importance of human right‚ not because it is not important but many of us never live in the shoes of those being violated. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was established in 1948(UN‚ n.d.)‚ for decades that it is used to make people’s life better. However‚ in some areas it was not enforced locally‚ as there are still many people in the world both developed and undeveloped countries who suffered from various violations of human rights. Fiji is a developing country located

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