Fomer envoy to Vatican: ‘There’s Life Yet in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’
December 11, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, marking the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Mary Ann Glendon remarks: “Its nonbinding principles had more effect than the international covenants that were based upon it.”
Moreover, the former US ambassador to the Holy See and Harvard Law professor sees a new interest in the declaration, among world leaders who “understand that without commitment to a few basic principles, nothing is left but the will of the stronger.”
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