Friday, December 10, 2010

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TODAY IN HISTORY

December 10, 1948: Signing of Declaration of Human Rights

" All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. "


The Universal Declaration of Human Rights on individual rights is a document signed in Paris on 10 December 1948 drafting of which was promoted by the United Nations because it had applied in all member states.
very important historical document produced by the Allies on the wave of indignation for the atrocities committed in World War II, the Declaration is part of the basic documents of the United Nations together with its own Statute of 1945.
According to the United States is not democratic, because the General Assembly Declaration of Principles, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is not legally binding on the Member States of the organization. However, the rights and freedoms recognized in it should be given a legal force in self- the international community, since they are now considered by most civilized nations like the inalienable principles of general international law.
Declaration of Human Rights is an ethical code of fundamental historical importance: it was actually the first document to lay down universally (that is, in every historical period and in all parts of the world) the rights that the human being. Ideally, the Declaration is the culmination of a philosophical debate on ethics and human rights at various times has involved various philosophers.
The declaration is the result of a century of human development, starting from first principles-European classical ethical and reaches the Bill of Rights (1689), the American Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776), but especially the Declaration on the Rights of Man and Citizen paving in 1789 during the French Revolution, whose basic elements (the civil and political rights of the individual) have converged to a large extent in this paper. Very important
Finally, in the path that led to the creation of the Declaration, are the "Fourteen Points" (President Woodrow Wilson, 1918) and the pillars of the Four Freedoms enunciated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Atlantic Charter of 1941.
A key to unlock the ethical conscience which is the basis of the Declaration, finally, have certainly covered the dramatic events and the millions of deaths of World War II.
the return is prepared, among others, by René Cassin, are then followed to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, drafted by the Commission for Human Rights and both adopted unanimously by the UN December 16, 1966.
The Declaration is the basis of many of the civil achievements of the second half of the twentieth century, and is the ideal horizon of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, then in 2004 merged into the European Constitution.
The Declaration composed of a preamble and 30 articles that enshrine individual rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural needs of each person. The rights of the individual are then divided into two broad areas: civil rights and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights.


Ilaria Biancacci

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