The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. The historic document, often labeled a "Modern-Day Magna Carta," outlines the human rights standards the UN believes should be enforced by all nations**—among them "the right to life, liberty and nationality, to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, to work, to be educated, [and] to take part in government."
**Rules and participation may vary. Declaration void when human rights conflict with America's policy of global domination.
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And it once seemed like such a good idea…of course that was before Oil for Food scandal, before tinpot dictators figured out the U.N.s only recourse was to say "Stop! Or we'll say it again, but sterner!"…and of course before Libya was named to the Human Rights council (apparently to give pointers on the correct way to stone women and slaughter innocents).
If only all our leadership could be chosen by alphabetical order. Sorry Zimbabwe!
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