Data on Human Rights Violation
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Brainwashing |
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man, modern human cruelty (#2, p.241)(#2, p.230+) no such thing as "truth"; modern man and "facts"; propoganda; modern historians; modern man out of touch with nature(p. 234); general ills of modern man as a result of his inability to recognize himself as something more than the "logical/scientific" being; need for ritual; alienantion; lack of ritual in modern societty (p. 242); real freedom (p. 243); work (p. 245); "tyranny of the machine" (p. 245); fascism (p.246); logic (p. 246-247). |
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights The catalog of rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted without dissent by the General Assembly on December 10, 1948, is scarcely less than the sum of all the important traditional political and civil rights of national constitutions and legal systems, including equality before the law; protection against arbitrary arrest; the right to a fair trial; freedom from ex post facto criminal laws; the right to own property; freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; freedom of opinion and expression; and freedom of peaceful assembly and association. Also enumerated are such economic, social, and cultural rights as the right to work and to choose one's work freely, the right to equal pay for equal work, the right to form and join trade unions, the right to rest and leisure, the right to an adequate standard of living, and the right to education.The Universal Declaration, it must be noted, is not a treaty. It was meant to proclaim "a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations" rather than enforceable legal obligations. Nevertheless, partly because of an 18-year delay between its adoption and the completion for signature and ratification of the two covenants, the Universal Declaration has acquired a status juridically more important than originally intended. It has been widely used, even by national courts, as a means of judging compliance with human rights obligations under the UN Charter.Copyright © 1994-2001 Encyclopędia Britannica, Inc._ |
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Political Dissent freedom of conscience political dissent, political dissidents freedom of conscience prisoners of conscience Amnesty International Data on Human Rights Violation and State Repression civil liberties |
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