Human rights are always on the front burner of the culture wars. I have always been a fan of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and have always wished this nation and its component states would take this as a set of guidelines.

That is unlikely to ever happen but I appreciate the efforts of so many to support these values.

James Pilant

In 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declared that every human being, without “distinction of any kind,” possesses a set of morally authoritative rights and fundamental freedoms that ought to be socially guaranteed. Since that time, human rights have arguably become the cross-cultural moral concept and evaluative tool to measure the performance—and even legitimacy—of domestic r … Read More

via Georgetown University Press Blog