Human Rights in the new Millennium
On 10 December 2008 we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Together with the United Nations Charter this remarkable Declaration is indeed the constitution of our planet. We remember that just one day before the proclamation of the UDHR, the General Assembly adopted another important human rights instrument, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 9 December 1948. It…
