Eleanor Roosevelt Standing up for humanity in a world of chaos By Joseph Edward Schur
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
his is really important to me. I encourage our readers, friends and colleagues to read Eleanor Roosevelt's address, delivered on September 28th, 1948 in Paris.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages. The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired, and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties, applied today on a permanent basis at global and regional levels (all containing references to it in their preambles.I have come this evening to talk with you on one of the greatest issues of our time -- that is the preservation of human freedom.
As the Publisher of Spencer Magazine, I believe that I would be remiss in not reminding the people of Spencer's World, our world, how incredibly important this speech is, especially right now. No colour pictures, no dreamy text. Just reality. Black and white. Eleanor Roosevelt was so ahead of her time, almost prophetic. It's alarming that today, in this century, we are potentially pushed backed to the stone ages... Right? It only takes one crazy person (guess who?!) to destroy our world, and all of Earth's creatures, great and small. 22 w w w. s p e n c e r- m a g a z i n e . c o m
