A letter from F.D. Roosevelt;
- One penny a minute paid every minute to every North American 365 days per year before World War Two would have been enough to avert the wars. Eleanor wanted to know what people owned before she would agree that they get the benefit as she was class competitive; not from an established eastern seaboard family where the benefit was taught and thought of as a ration or citizens compensation or commonwealth so we can all buy soap, avoid the tuberculosis and keep us all safe and clean from communicable diseases whenever those hard times could affect us all, including the farmers.
- The benefit does not make you wealthy but ensured a common safety. So, where was Eleanor really from? She was certainly American by the time she got to the bite house. In the end, she saw the two big wars partially based on the economy shutting down due to issues caused by mechanized labor with people out of work and not having money in many parts of the country, a job famine.
- But, a fictional war for fictional reasons to provoke economic stimulus for job creation is not any solution every time automation causes a job famine. It does not work as it might have briefly in the 40's because all they do now is add a another machine.
- You have heard of Chat GBT or Co Pilot which is where I donated my under grad exam book emotions from that course with International Politics 231E to be that nameless, faceless automation mirror on the wall. They always had income support money in Vermont, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. This was the founding American culture. This was to expand across the country but it did not. How else would people have or get money in a job famine? The provisions of benefit money is the founding culture. But it is also logic or logos or logistics. We drafted our own new deal. Eleanor agreed having watched and suffered the American experience of Joblessness; then war. She signed and eventually help draft the United Nations documents. The economy is not a mystery. The ration or income support or dole is as old as the bible or Damascus or Portofino. Everybody contributes that includes the wealthy so everybody benefits. To argue with this belies the truth of your less advanced origins or human expectations. Yet we have learned from our experiences. Still, the US is slow to comply. Other countries have complied fully. Without people immigrating to the US and Canada with income support money, we would be in an economic depression today. We read the calculation of this whole experience and its kind of a signature of some hysterical anthropism that is excited about words like "genocide" or "economy" that finds its way in some incessant need to arrive in the decision maker's seat but it dithers and squanders the moment and what do we get except defeat and occupation by other people and other cultures; this is while the food is reasonably good and also the architecture in addition to the new regenerative vehicles but the money has not been added to the economy so we can buy or lease the vehicle, pay for the food; and yet very seldom would these people present a Pasta Bolognese to you without sauce or a building without a roof yet they present an economy to you without money or insufficient money? Before they input the money as required by law so all Canadians benefit equally and so Canadians can buy or rent some new built property, the solution is to bring more people with money from else where. We can do both.
- Truthfully, if the economy is a game, you are not winning. You are losing in front of the Swedes, the Swiss and the Russians. But you fight if it's hockey. Maybe, if nothing else, you are fighting yourself, fighting logic. You should be competitive in terms of income support benefit paid to your people, to your team. How could you get the economy to serve your tenacious hockey agenda, paying every citizen as the law demands? Are you fighting the laws?
- The lecturer realized that everyone has to balance brakes so we have to, in the same way for mutual safety, balance the economy. Our expenditure in "job cancelling£ automation that increases supply of goods with 24 hour per day robotic labor that only requires KWh but not salaries or wages must be balanced with a purposely right expenditure in the funding of buyer demand for goods in the buyers ability to pay. Where do people get the money from in the joblessness or moneylessness caused by automation? The answer is that we provide them an income support benefit to fill the stadium. We need people with money to fill the stadiums.
- The energy in the economy has to balance. It is not mysterious. It is easy to solve. Everyone lovingly receives this benefit money.
- Cosmetically white people or the whites have not submitted to this fact. The Europeans have agreed. The cosmetically white are either missing a gene in their human composition, maybe a self compassion gene, or they are just hurtfully resistant. Money is the fastest path to peace. Scavenging is not peace. Yet scavenging may be the decision maker's culture. He has not input the money. He has tried to interrupt the benefit money and argued that he is trying to save. He is convicted for genocide. Compliance with a command of a Monarch or compliance with your governing laws should be your only goal. If you need money, add a percentage to your sales tax. Compliance with the law should be your only goal.
- The molecular power that comes from cutting an atom occupies the territory with radiation and it is uninhabitable. There are no people. But in the ultimate victory in the conflict you need to occupy the territory, the homes and vehicles. See every home and vehicle as territory. Who is in the home? Who is in the vehicle?
- We need to cut or dissect the variables or time and time and money and find the purposefully right amount of money to be paid into consumer buyer demand to balance out the money and time spent on robotic automation or technological automation.
- You need money to occupy the home and vehicle; and enjoy your foods and culture. It's a free country but your have to pay. The natives that have come to a cosmetically white arrival in society need to eat and drink their foods as chosen for their nutritional and/ or cosmetic benefits and we need to pay for these foods. The people who occupy your territory after the light self nuking disaster called Pickering Nuclear tend to be from countries where they are providing their citizens a sufficient benefit to get around the world and buy, rent or lease any property any where or to just be settled any where they choose such as in Canada. They buy any vehicles they choose.
- One issue for their arrival is that you have increased the numbers of home and condo units at a rate faster than the host white bread and butter or brown bread population can occupy them. You must mind the gap. Also, at $2500.00 a month in Ontario or $3166.70 per month in Québec they cannot afford the thought if they get the benefit. You did not ensure everyone receives the benefit. You did not increase the benefits to keep in pace with other industrial nations facing automation. You encouraged, instead people from other countries to arrive to help you source a surrogate population from another more obedient UN /King George VI / King Charles III submitted, obedient population to fill the gap. This is not very defensive.
- These nice brown, black and yellow peoples bought the condo in Waterloo or rent the Condo in Barrie or Burlington. Maybe they bought a condo in Toronto. Yet, the buildings remain 70% unoccupied and then you built another condo.
- Yet, you have not provided your own population sufficient monies to join the surrogate population from other lands you have brought to Canada to occupy these new, exciting properties. It's a free country if you want to buy it or rent it if you can pay. The surrogate population is provided money from their governments pursuant to UN protocol for a standard income support that satisfied all basic human daily needs. You understand this. Your Canadian or English government is obligated to provide these benefits in the same way as these other, more submissive and cooperative governments; logically submissive and also obedient to the UN. The writer's real father and teacher is white so you can run with the observation you take from this and make your economy work. It's a free world and you can live where ever you want so long as you have the money to pay. These condos, many of them, are built with Federal government dollars as raised through sales tax generation; sales tax we pay and this money is provided to the builders so long as the builder promises that a fraction of the units are to be used as government housing. As the whole project is federally funded, it's kind of public property.
- But, you can't just take the decorations or the books in the condo library because it is publicly funded. They were purchased for learning or the book is in the condo as decorative.
- But you can't live there legally without a paid agreement just as you can't enter Algonquin Park without paid agreement unless you attended on the free days once a month on the last Friday of the month. There are encampments all over the country due to the fact that the properties set as housing are not being used for housing but most importantly, the income support benefit provided to Canadians in Canada is insufficient to afford any paid agreement at the regular rate.
Also, the benefit is not provided to all citizens contrary to the UN treaties and it is not provided in equal amounts contrary to S.15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. If you approach the building and ask for housing in an application, then the building manager will debit the Federal government for the rent or add it to the accounts so it's an expense to be calculated against revenue or you take a lesser rent and the difference is an expense or loss to be used against revenue. You could just register the management company as a non profit or are you just cosmetically white, injecting Smirnoff in your thumbs? - You do not see anyone but the cosmetically white people in encampments. We do not know what happened or why. They may have been mugged at a Casino by undercover cops (it could never really happen except at Casino Rama) or evil bank employees (now former) do evil things like hold the card and refuse to give it back but we can disburse the encampments with emergency bank debit cards.
- They can buy clothing and get to a hotel. Everyone will be entitled to the emergency bank card for 10 years so we apologize to ourselves for our meanness and self defeatism. Listen to Billy Graham's word today; every day for five minutes.
- You built nice buildings but your are surrounding yourself ING with something socio-economically ugly and you refuse to solve it lovingly with an emergency debit payment card to get people moving.
- These encampments are very ugly so they have chosen to encamp in condo parking garages before they are taken to old, abandoned car companies and assisted in these buildings as make- shift shelters, provided phones, debit cards and surgically implanted Meta eye wear. Could it recharge from human body heat and human movement as proposed by Alusra? So, we need to know why there are no book bar code detectors or subway turnstile type barriers at the Ivey main Weldon University of Ontario Western library. I mean the Western UWO Weldon library. The school is to be brought back under the umbrella of the University of London to confirm Western's origins and to assist in the quiet path toward a certain future for the school that is an ideal quiet space for meaningful undergraduate contemplation and study away from Toronto, University of Wisconsin for a good football or hockey scholarship or far away from North Western. Its just too busy and noisy there in those places. The Entrepreneurship Centre and the Ivey Centre are ridiculously genius, opulent spaces for quiet contemplation of your job prospects in an AI world. But, there is an exam coming up and a final exam so, this is serious work. BPP at the University of London will provide the module packs for the Ivey School. But, the pirate lecturer will not hold the successful graduates who achieve the successful results in chemistry, business or business ransom; nor will they cut the result in two. Let God decide how long an A+ graduate lives. Will they keep stealing things out of his bags as he travels to cut him down?
- So, we cannot MPAC price fix before we "people save" or we do both. The law does not require MPAC but it does under the UN Native UDHR article 25. We are all native some where in the world.
- Essentially the motivation is to make the economy work effectively if it's not to save the population but use the population to generate a safer, more productive economy. You can price reasonable ( never goes down but never up very much) fix the value of property but you must also, to balance it out, price fix the ability to pay. Our "ability to pay" with the benefit provided must always go up.
- I was at the Ivey School of business the other day and there is a lot of work going on. How do we effectively stimulate the economy? We could do this by adding an extra penny a minute to consumer income support benefits. We would have to set a bench mark figure for the year first; an amount that we will say is the set lowest amount for that year and the income support cannot be less than that. From year to year, it cannot be less than that amount. But it can be higher. We could day the base amount is $110,000.00 per year. Of we increase the once support by an additional 1 cent per minute, then it's $115,000.00 per year. The amount suggested in the current 2025 economy satisfies legal requirements under the UDHR article 25 and also the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. This is the base amount that is to increase by 2% a year to keep pace with potential inflation. Sometimes there is deflation when there are too many goods for sale and not enough purchasers where there is more supply than there is actual demand. After the 2% increase, we could inspire extra consumer stimulus with half penny or one whole penny increases in the benefit payments as stimulus. But, we would never reduce the benefit payment below the set amount for that year. If we added 2% to the $110,000.00 for the year 2026, we get $112200.00. We could cool the economy or in fact cool economic activity by raising the sales tax by a 1% when the decision maker would deem it necessary. Bless him or her.
- We have to apply what we have learned in school to real matters affecting society and life therein. School provides you, whether you graduate or not, belonging, kin, community, a network and association. But, we are here to remind the greater community how we can be happy. I bought a pizza from Supply and Demand Pizzeria last night. Let's see how these supply and demand forces in our economy work. 1% of $10.00 is $1.00.
- The 1% of the economy in terms of sales tax generation is not less than $2 billion per year. 13+% is worth 26 billion per year. Providing an income support to every citizen is not a financial issue or any financial burden. The light bulb really is American technology.
- There is enough to provide the income support at not less than $12.55 per hour and this is feasible. If we don't provide what is sufficient to ensure a compliant, safe functional economy we are at war with logic and as a nation we are internally hemorrhaging significant numbers of people in our population, members of our community and population, who are dying in the cold. Until this is solved with genuine intent, an Su35 fighter jet purchase is redundant if we will not truly defend our population in peace time or war.
- That is worth 0.21 cents per minute per human input much like a kilowatt of financial energy per minute per human in Canada or the UK; 24 hours per day, 365 days per year just as we power the machines 24 hours a day with energy. So, we give electric energy to the machines. We also give financial energy to the consumers. .01 cents a minute or one penny a minute is worth over 365 days (over one year), $5256.00 per year. We provide this financial energy so that we can electronically swipe, tap or insert our cards to make electronic payment.
- We have taken on the minutia of an atom using a world of science that says energy in any system is not lost in the system but only transferred. The energy must balance in the system. It's a system. But we can take on the minutia of time and money for constructive purposes to work a positive end to the economy.
- The economy is like a water wheel that you may not know is under Niagara Falls to generate electric power. Nuclear power at Pickering is not needed. The wars brought the rise of the "destructive pirate idiot in Anglo World as the decision maker and he or she is convicted" in our world but maybe it did not bring the rise of the God Fearing African, American or European as we would have hoped. The good English and good Scott who built Niagara Falls and who would build a regenerative English economy are missing. If England was run by a Trinidadian or a Grenadian, a Dutch man, Norwegian or a Caymanee we would all have the benefits and consistently; not just some of us. England, by the PM's office, is run by an Jamaican Creole population. It is double minded and is following a Jamaican current of financial insufficiency instead of the more Norwegian or, Icelandic or Irish current of financial certainty. We can see this since George VI abandoned Laissez Faire at the end of the WW2 and said it must all just work in all of the Commonwealth as it would in Germany. George VI wrote the UDHR with the Polish, German lawyer Raphael Lemkin, a Polish lawyer who coined the term and drafted the initial proposal for the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The United Nations General Assembly adopted his draft in 1948, resulting in the convention that legally defines and prohibits genocide under international law. Every Commonwealth country is a signatory. But, every country is not compliant. This is the King's will nonetheless. So, pay the benefits to all the citizens in the Commonwealth with England
- to be restored as a shining example or they will cut you down since you pretend to be the big tree and who understands you when you say you want good treatment for the black people but not in Jamaica since you want labour to be almost for free and you don't know who could get to work for you if they had money but they seem to have benefit money and work in New York and in Oshawa. But, if they could get the benefits in Maine, California or Rhode Island or New Mexico or in the Caymans, you would prefer that to the payment of the regular benefits in Jamaica.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that codifies some of the rights and freedoms of all human beings. Drafted by a United Nations (UN) committee chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, it was accepted by the General Assembly as Resolution 217 during its third session on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France.[1] Of the 58 members of the UN at the time, 48 voted in favour, none against, eight abstained, and two did not vote.[2]
A foundational text in the history of human and civil rights, the Declaration consists of 30 articles detailing an individual's "basic rights and fundamental freedoms" and affirming their universal character as inherent, inalienable, and applicable to all human beings.[1] Adopted as a "common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations", the UDHR commits nations to recognize all humans as being "born free and equal in dignity and rights" regardless of "nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status".[3]
The Declaration is generally considered to be a milestone document for its universalist language, which makes no reference to a particular culture, political system, or religion.[4][5] It directly inspired the development of international human rights law, and was the first step in the formulation of the International Bill of Human Rights, which was completed in 1966 and came into force in 1976. Although not legally binding, the contents of the UDHR have been elaborated and incorporated into subsequent international treaties, regional human rights instruments, and national constitutions and legal codes.[6][7][8]
All 193 member states of the UN have ratified at least one of the nine binding treaties influenced by the Declaration, with the vast majority ratifying four or more.[1] While there is a wide consensus that the declaration itself is non-binding and not part of customary international law, there is also a consensus in most countries that many of its provisions are part of customary law,[9][10] although courts in some nations have been more restrictive in interpreting its legal effect.[11][12] Nevertheless, the UDHR has influenced legal, political, and social developments on both the global and national levels, with its significance partly evidenced by its 530 translations.[13]
Structure and content
The underlying structure of the Universal Declaration was influenced by the Code Napoléon, including a preamble and introductory general principles.[14] Its final structure took form in the second draft prepared by French jurist René Cassin, who worked on the initial draft prepared by Canadian legal scholar John Peters Humphrey.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights consists of the following:
- The preamble sets out the historical and social causes that led to the necessity of drafting the Declaration.
- Articles 1–2 establish the basic concepts of dignity, liberty, and equality.
- Articles 3–5 establish other individual rights, such as the right to life and the prohibition of slavery and torture.
- Articles 6–11 refer to the fundamental legality of human rights with specific remedies cited for their defence when violated.
- Articles 12–17 set forth the rights of the individual towards the community, including freedom of movement and residence within each state, the right of property, the right to a nationality and right to asylum.
- Articles 18–21 sanction the so-called "constitutional liberties" and spiritual, public, and political freedoms, such as freedom of thought, opinion, expression, religion and conscience, word, peaceful association of the individual, and receiving and imparting information and ideas through any media.
- Articles 22–27 sanction an individual's economic, social and cultural rights, including healthcare. It upholds an expansive right to an adequate standard of living, and makes special mention of care given to those in motherhood or childhood.
- Articles 28–30 establish the general means of exercising these rights, the areas in which the rights of the individual cannot be applied, the duty of the individual to society, and the prohibition of the use of rights in contravention of the purposes of the United Nations Organization.[15]
Cassin compared the Declaration to the portico of a Greek temple, with a foundation, steps, four columns, and a pediment.[16] Articles 1 and 2—with their principles of dignity, liberty, equality and brotherhood—serve as the foundation blocks. The seven paragraphs of the preamble, setting out the reasons for the Declaration, represent the steps leading up to the temple. The main body of the Declaration forms the four columns. The first column (articles 3–11) constitutes rights of the individual, such as the right to life and the prohibition of slavery. The second column (articles 12–17) constitutes the rights of the individual in civil and political society. The third column (articles 18–21) is concerned with spiritual, public, and political freedoms, such as freedom of religion and freedom of association. The fourth column (articles 22–27) sets out social, economic, and cultural rights. The final three articles provide the "pediment" which binds the structure together, as they emphasize the mutual duties of every individual to one another and to society.[16]
Charles Malik, the Lebanese representative on the drafting commission, pointed out the need for an article on the right or popular entitlement to "a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realised", which became Article 28.[17]
History
Background

Freedom from Fear (Saturday, March 13, 1943)–from the Four Freedoms series by Norman Rockwell. The freedom from fear is mentioned in the preamble of the Declaration.[18] During World War II, the Allies—known formally as the United Nations—adopted as their basic war aims the Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.[19][20] Towards the end of the war, the United Nations Charter was debated, drafted, and ratified to reaffirm "faith in fundamental human rights, and dignity and worth of the human person" and commit all member states to promote "universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion".[21] When the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany became fully apparent after the war, the consensus within the world community was that the UN Charter did not sufficiently define the rights to which it referred.[22][23] It was deemed necessary to create a universal declaration that specified the rights of individuals so as to give effect to the Charter's provisions on human rights.[24]
The drafting committee
In June 1946, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)—a principal organ of the newly founded United Nations that is responsible for promoting human rights, created the Commission on Human Rights (CHR)—a standing body within the United Nations that was tasked with preparing what was initially conceived as an International Bill of Rights.[25] It had 18 members from various national, religious, and political backgrounds, so as to be representative of humanity.[26] In February 1947, the Commission established a special Universal Declaration of Human Rights Drafting Committee, chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States, to write the articles of the Declaration. Roosevelt, in her position, was key to the U.S. effort to encourage the General Assembly's adoption of a Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[27] The Committee met in two sessions over the course of two years.[28]
Canadian John Peters Humphrey, the newly appointed Director of the Division of Human Rights within the United Nations Secretariat, was called upon by the UN Secretary-General to work on the project, becoming the Declaration's principal drafter.[29][30] Other prominent members of the Drafting Committee included Vice-Chairman P.C. Chang of the Republic of China, René Cassin of France; and its Committee Rapporteur Charles Malik of Lebanon.[31] A month after its creation, the Drafting Committee was expanded to include representatives of Australia, Chile, France, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom, in addition to the inaugural members from China, France, Lebanon, and the United States.[32]
Creation and drafting
Humphrey is credited with devising the "blueprint" for the Declaration, while Cassin composed the first draft.[33] Both received considerable input from other members, each of whom reflected different professional and ideological backgrounds. The Declaration's pro-family phrases allegedly derived from Cassin and Malik, who were influenced by the Christian Democracy movement;[34] Malik, a Christian theologian, was known for appealing across religious lines; he cited the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas, and studied the different Christian sects.[32] Chang urged removing all references to religion to make the document more universal, and used aspects of Confucianism to settle stalemates in negotiations.[35] Hernán Santa Cruz of Chile, an educator and judge, strongly supported the inclusion of socioeconomic rights, which had been opposed by some Western nations.[32] The members agreed that the philosophical debate centered between the opposing opinions of Chang and Malik, with Malik later singling out Chang when thanking the members, saying that there were too many to mention, but Chang's ideas impacted his own opinions in the making of the draft.[36][37][38]
In her memoirs, Roosevelt commented on the debates and discussions that informed the UDHR, describing one such exchange during the Drafting Committee's first session in June 1947:
In May 1948, roughly a year after its creation, the Drafting Committee held its second and final session, where it considered the comments and suggestions of member states and international bodies, principally the United Nations Conference on Freedom of Information, which took place the prior March and April; the Commission on the Status of Women, a body within ECOSOC that reported on the state of women's rights worldwide; and the Ninth International Conference of American States, held in Bogota, Colombia from March to May 1948, which adopted the South American-based American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, the world's first general international human rights instrument.[39] Delegates and consultants from several United Nations bodies, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations also attended and submitted suggestions.[40] It was also hoped that an International Bill of Human Rights with legal force could be drafted and submitted for adoption alongside the Declaration.[39]
The final draft
Upon the session's conclusion on 21 May 1948, the Committee submitted to the Commission on Human Rights a redrafted text of the "International Declaration of Human Rights" and the "International Covenant of Human Rights", which together would form an International Bill of Rights.[39] The redrafted Declaration was further examined and discussed by the Commission on Human Rights in its third session in Geneva 21 May through 18 June 1948.[41] The so-called "Geneva text" was circulated among member states and subject to several proposed amendments; for example, Hansa Mehta of India notably suggested that the Declaration assert that "all human beings are created equal", instead of "all men are created equal", to better reflect gender equality.[42]
Charles Theodore Te Water of South Africa fought very hard to have the word dignity removed from the declaration, saying that "dignity had no universal standard and that it was not a 'right'".[43] Te Water believed—correctly, as it turned out—that listing human dignity as a human right would lead to criticism of the apartheid system that had just been introduced by the new National Party government of South Africa.[43] Malik in response stated that Prime Minister Jan Smuts of South Africa had played an important role in drafting the United Nations Charter in 1945, and it was Smuts who inserted the word dignity as a human right into the charter.[43] Despite te Water's efforts, the word dignity was included in the declaration as a human right.[43]
Approval
With a vote of 12 in favour, none opposed, and four abstaining, the CHR approved the proposed Declaration, though was unable to examine the contents and implementation of the proposed Covenant.[44] The Commission forwarded the approved text of the Declaration, as well as the Covenant, to the Economic and Social Council for its review and approval during its seventh session in July and August 1948.[45] The Council adopted Resolution 151(VII) of 26 August 1948, transmitting the draft International Declaration of Human Rights to the UN General Assembly.[45]
The Third Committee of the General Assembly, which convened from 30 September to 7 December 1948 during the third session of the United Nations General Assembly, held 81 meetings concerning the draft Declaration, including debating and resolving 168 proposals for amendments by United Nations member states.[46][47] On its 178th meeting on 6 December, the Third Committee adopted the Declaration with 29 votes in favour, none opposed and seven abstentions.[46] The document was subsequently submitted to the wider General Assembly for its consideration on 9 and 10 December 1948.
Adoption
The Universal Declaration was adopted by the General Assembly as UN Resolution A/RES/217(III)[A] on 10 December 1948 in the Palais de Chaillot, Paris.[48][b] Of the 58 United Nations members at the time,[49] 48 voted in favour, none against, eight abstained,[50][51] and Honduras and Yemen failed to vote or abstain.[52]
Eleanor Roosevelt is credited with having been instrumental in mustering support for the Declaration's adoption, both in her native U.S. and across the world, owing to her ability to appeal to different and often opposing political blocs.[8]
The meeting record provides firsthand insight into the debate on the Declaration's adoption.[53] South Africa's position can be seen as an attempt to protect its system of apartheid, which clearly violated several articles in the Declaration.[50] Saudi Arabia's abstention was prompted primarily by two of the Declaration's articles: Article 18, which states that everyone has the right "to change his religion or belief", and Article 16, on equal marriage rights.[50] The abstentions by the six communist nations were explained by their claim that the Declaration did not go far enough in condemning fascism and national-socialism.[50] However, Eleanor Roosevelt felt that the reason for the abstentions was Article 13, which provided the right of citizens to leave their countries.[54] Other observers pin the Soviet bloc's opposition to the Declaration's "negative rights", such as provisions calling on governments not to violate certain civil and political rights.[8]
The British delegation, while voting in favour of the Declaration, expressed frustration that the proposed document had moral obligations but lacked legal force;[55] it would not be until 1976 that the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights came into force, giving a legal status to most of the Declaration.

Voting in the plenary session:
Green countries: voted in favour;
Orange countries: abstained;
Black countries: failed to abstain or vote;
Grey countries: were not a part of the UN at time of votingThe 48 countries that voted in favour of the Declaration are:[56]
Afghanistan
Argentina
Australia
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Burma
Canada[a]
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Ethiopia
France
Greece
Guatemala
Haiti
Iceland
India
Iran
Iraq
Lebanon
Liberia
Luxembourg
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Norway
Pakistan
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Siam
Sweden
Syria
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela
- a. ^ Despite the central role played by the Canadian John Peters Humphrey, the Canadian Government at first abstained from voting on the Declaration's draft, but later voted in favour of the final draft in the General Assembly.[57]
Eight countries abstained:[56]
Two countries did not vote:
Current UN member states, particularly in Africa, gained sovereignty later, and many nations in Europe and the Pacific were under administration due to the recently concluded World War II, which accounts for the comparatively smaller number of states who participated in the historic vote.[58]
International Human Rights Day

Former Foreign Office minister Baroness Anelay speaking at the Commemorating Human Rights Day event in London, 8 December 2016 10 December, the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration, is celebrated annually as World Human Rights Day or International Human Rights Day. The commemoration is observed by individuals, community and religious groups, human rights organizations, parliaments, governments, and the United Nations. Decadal commemorations are often accompanied by campaigns to promote awareness of the Declaration and of human rights in general. 2008 marked the 60th anniversary of the Declaration, and was accompanied by year-long activities around the theme "Dignity and justice for all of us".[59] Likewise, the 70th anniversary in 2018 was marked by the global #StandUpForHumanRights campaign, which targeted youth.[60]
Impact
Significance
At the time of the Declaration's adoption by the General Assembly in 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt said:[61]: 318
The UDHR is considered groundbreaking for providing a comprehensive and universal set of principles in a secular, apolitical document that explicitly transcends cultures, religions, legal systems, and political ideologies.[5] Its claim to universality has been described as "boundlessly idealistic" and the "most ambitious feature".[62]
The Declaration was officially adopted as a French document,[63][64] with official translations in English, Chinese, Russian and Spanish, all of which are official working languages of the UN.[65] Due to its inherently universalist nature, the United Nations has made a concerted effort to translate the document into as many languages as possible, in collaboration with private and public entities and individuals.[66] In 1999, the Guinness Book of Records described the Declaration as the world's "Most Translated Document", with 298 translations; the record was once again certified a decade later when the text reached 370 different languages and dialects.[67][68] The UDHR achieved a milestone of over 500 translations in 2016, and as of 2024, has been translated into 562 languages,[69][70] remaining the most translated document.[67]
In its preamble, governments commit themselves and their people to progressive measures that secure the universal and effective recognition and observance of the human rights set out in the Declaration. Eleanor Roosevelt supported the adoption of the text as a declaration, rather than as a treaty, because she believed that it would have the same kind of influence on global society as the United States Declaration of Independence had within the United States.[71] Even though it is not legally binding, the Declaration has been incorporated into or influenced most national constitutions since 1948. It has also served as the foundation for a growing number of national laws, international laws, and treaties, as well as for a growing number of regional, subnational, and national institutions protecting and promoting human rights. These kinds of measures focus on some principles that regard every culture/community especially when martial status take place or inheritance. In other words, every culture has its own norms and every individual is allowed to practice them unless he/she use them as a source of power.
The Declaration's all-encompassing provisions serve as a "yardstick" and point of reference by which countries' commitments to human rights are judged, such as through the treaty bodies and other mechanisms of various human rights treaties that monitor implementation.[8]
Legal effect
In international law, a declaration is distinct from a treaty in that it generally states aspirations or understandings among the parties, rather than binding obligations.[72] The Declaration was explicitly adopted to reflect and elaborate on the customary international law reflected in the "fundamental freedoms" and "human rights" referenced in the United Nations Charter, which is binding on all member states.[72] For this reason, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a fundamental constitutive document of the United Nations and, by extension, all 193 parties of the United Nations Charter.
Nevertheless, the status of the Declaration as a legally enforceable document varies widely around the world: some countries have incorporated it into their domestic laws, while other countries consider it merely a statement of ideals, with no binding provisions.[61]: 287–397
Many international lawyers believe that the Declaration forms part of customary international law and is a powerful tool in applying diplomatic and moral pressure to governments that violate its articles.[73][74][75][76][77][78] One prominent international jurist described the UDHR as being "universally regarded as expounding generally accepted norms".[79] Other legal scholars have further argued that the Declaration constitutes jus cogens, fundamental principles of international law from which no state may deviate or derogate.[80] The 1968 United Nations International Conference on Human Rights advised that the Declaration "constitutes an obligation for the members of the international community" to all persons.[81]
The Declaration has served as the foundation for two binding United Nations human rights covenants: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The principles of the Declaration are elaborated in other binding international treaties such as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations Convention Against Torture, and many more. The Declaration continues to be widely cited by governments, academics, advocates, and constitutional courts, and by individuals who appeal to its principles for the protection of their recognized human rights.[82]
National law
According to a 2022 study, the UDHR "significantly accelerated the adoption of a particular set of [national] constitutional rights".[83] One scholar estimates that at least 90 national constitutions drafted since the Declaration's adoption in 1948 "contain statements of fundamental rights which, where they do not faithfully reproduce the provisions of the Universal Declaration, are at least inspired by it".[84] At least 20 African nations that attained independence in the decades immediately following 1948 explicitly referenced the UDHR in their constitutions.[84] As of 2014, the constitutions that still directly cite the Declaration are those of Afghanistan, Benin, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Haiti, Mali, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Niger, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Somalia, Spain, Togo, and Yemen.[84] Moreover, the constitutions of Portugal, Romania, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Spain compel their courts to "interpret" constitutional norms consistently with the Universal Declaration.[85]
Judicial and political figures in many nations have directly invoked the UDHR as an influence or inspiration on their courts, constitutions, or legal codes. Indian courts have ruled the Indian Constitution "[embodies] most of the articles contained in the Declaration".[86] Nations as diverse as Antigua, Chad, Chile, Kazakhstan, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Zimbabwe have derived constitutional and legal provisions from the Declaration.[84] In some cases, specific provisions of the UDHR are incorporated or otherwise reflected in national law. The right to health or to protection of health is found in the constitutions of Belgium, Kyrgyzstan, Paraguay, Peru, Thailand, and Togo; constitutional obligations on the government to provide health services exist in Armenia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Finland, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Paraguay, Thailand, and Yemen.[86]
A survey of U.S. cases through 1988 found five references to the Declaration by the United States Supreme Court; sixteen references by federal courts of appeal; twenty-four references by federal district courts; one reference by a bankruptcy court; and several references by five state courts.[87] Likewise, research conducted in 1994 identified 94 references to the Declaration by federal and state courts across the U.S.[88]
In 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain that the Declaration "does not of its own force impose obligations as a matter of international law", and that the political branches of the U.S. federal government can "scrutinize" the nation's obligations to international instruments and their enforceability.[12] However, U.S. courts and legislatures may still use the Declaration to inform or interpret laws concerned with human rights,[89] a position shared by the courts of Belgium, the Netherlands, India, and Sri Lanka.[89]
Praise and support
The Universal Declaration has received praise from a number of notable activists, jurists, and political leaders. Lebanese philosopher and diplomat Charles Malik called it "an international document of the first order of importance",[90] while Eleanor Roosevelt—first chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) that helped draft the Declaration—stated that it "may well become the international Magna Carta of all men everywhere".[91] At the 1993 United Nations World Conference on Human Rights, one of the largest international gatherings on human rights,[92] diplomats and officials representing 100 nations reaffirmed their governments' "commitment to the purposes and principles contained in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" and emphasized that the Declaration as "the source of inspiration and has been the basis for the United Nations in making advances in standard setting as contained in the existing international human rights instruments".[84] In a speech on 5 October 1995, Pope John Paul II called the Declaration "one of the highest expressions of the human conscience of our time", despite the Vatican never adopting it.[93] In a statement on 10 December 2003 on behalf of the European Union, Marcello Spatafora said that the Declaration "placed human rights at the centre of the framework of principles and obligations shaping relations within the international community".[94]
As a pillar of international human rights, the UDHR enjoys widespread support among international and nongovernmental organizations. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), one of the oldest human rights organizations, has as its core mandate the promotion of the respect for all rights set out in the Declaration, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.[95][96] Amnesty International, the third oldest international human rights organization,[97] has regularly observed Human Rights Day and organized worldwide events to bring awareness and support of the UDHR.[98] Some organizations, such as the Quaker United Nations Office and the American Friends Service Committee have developed curriculum or programmes to educate young people on the UDHR.[99][100][101]
Specific provisions of the UDHR are cited or elaborated by interest groups in relation to their specific area of focus. In 1997, the council of the American Library Association (ALA) endorsed Articles 18 through 20 concerning freedoms of thought, opinion, and expression,[102] which were codified in the ALA Universal Right to Free Expression and the Library Bill of Rights. The Declaration formed the basis of the ALA's claim that censorship, invasion of privacy, and interference of opinions are human rights violations.[103]
Criticism
Soviet Union and Marxism–Leninism
During the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Soviet Union criticized its promoters for not prioritizing social rights over individual rights and positive rights over negative rights enough according to Marxism–Leninism.[104]
Islam

Distribution map of Islam by country Most Muslim-majority countries that were then members of the United Nations signed the Declaration in 1948, including the kingdoms of Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iraq, Pahlavi Iran, and the First Syrian Republic; the Republic of Turkey, which had an overwhelmingly Muslim population but an officially secular government, also voted in favour.[105] Saudi Arabia was the sole abstainer on the Declaration among Muslim-majority countries, claiming that it violated the Islamic law (sharīʿa).[106][107] Pakistan, officially an Islamic state, signed the declaration and critiqued the Saudi position,[108] strongly arguing in favour of including freedom of religion as a fundamental human right of the UDHR.[109][full citation needed]
Moreover, some Muslim diplomats would later help draft other United Nations human rights treaties. For example, Iraq's representative to the United Nations, Bedia Afnan's insistence on wording that recognized gender equality resulted in Article 3 within the ICCPR and ICESCR, which, together with the UDHR, form the International Bill of Rights. Pakistani diplomat Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah influenced the drafting of the Declaration, especially with respect to women's rights, and played a role in the preparation of the 1951 Genocide Convention.[109]
In 1982, the Iranian diplomat to the United Nations, who represented the country's newly installed Islamic republic, stated that the Declaration was "a secular understanding of the Judeo-Christian tradition" that could not be implemented by Muslims without conflict with sharīʿa law.[110]
On 30 June 2000, member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, which represents the Muslim world's largest intergovernmental body,[111] officially resolved to support the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam,[106][112] an alternative document that says people have "freedom and right to a dignified life in accordance with the Islamic Shari'ah", without any discrimination on grounds of "race, colour, language, sex, religious belief, political affiliation, social status or other considerations". The Cairo Declaration is widely acknowledged to be a response to the UDHR, and uses similar universalist language, albeit derived solely from Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh).[113]
Regarding the promulgation of the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, T. Jeremy Gunn, Professor of Law and Political Science at the International University of Rabat in Morocco, has stated:
A number of scholars in different fields have expressed concerns with the Declaration's alleged Western and secularist bias.[106] Abdulaziz Sachedina observes that Muslims broadly agree with the Declaration's universalist premise, which is shared by Islam, but differ on specific contents, which many find "insensitive to particular Muslim cultural values, especially when it comes to speaking about individual rights in the context of collective and family values in Muslim society".[114]: 50–51 However, he notes that most Muslim scholars, while opposing the inherently secular framework of the document, do respect and acknowledge some of its "foundations".[114]: 50–51 Sachedina further argues that many Christians similarly criticized the Declaration for allegedly reflecting a secular and liberal bias in opposition to certain religious values.[114]: 50–51
Kazakh religious scholars Galym Zhussipbek and Zhanar Nagayeva have argued that the rejection or failed implementation of human rights in Muslim-majority countries and their seeming incompatibility with sharīʿa law originates from the current "epistemological crisis of conservative Islamic scholarship and Muslim mind", rooted in the centuries-old confinement of a role for reason within strict limits, and in the disappearance of rationalistic discursive Islamic theology (kalām) as a dynamic science from the Muslim world.[115] Furthermore, they affirm the necessity of undertaking an epistemological reform in Islamic scholarship, which denotes the incorporation of international standards of human rights and justice into the epistemology and methodology of Islamic jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh).[115]
Riffat Hassan, a Pakistani-born American Islamic feminist scholar and Muslim theologian, has argued:
Faisal Kutty, a Muslim Canadian human rights activist, opines that a "strong argument can be made that the current formulation of international human rights constitutes a cultural structure in which western society finds itself easily at home [...]. It is important to acknowledge and appreciate that other societies may have equally valid alternative conceptions of human rights."[117] Irene Oh, director of the peace studies programme at Georgetown University, has argued that Muslim reservations towards some provisions of the UDHR, and the broader debate about the document's secular and Western bias, could be resolved through mutual dialogue grounded in comparative descriptive ethics.[118]
"The Right to Refuse to Kill"
Groups such as Amnesty International[119] and War Resisters International[120] have advocated for "The Right to Refuse to Kill" to be added to the Universal Declaration, as has Seán MacBride, a former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.[121] War Resisters International has stated that the right to conscientious objection to military service is primarily derived from Article 18 of the UDHR, which preserves the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.[120] Some steps have been taken within the UN to make the right more explicit, with the Human Rights Council repeatedly affirming that Article 18 enshrines "the right of everyone to have conscientious objection to military service as a legitimate exercise of the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion".[122][123]
American Anthropological Association
The American Anthropological Association criticized the UDHR during its drafting process, warning that its definition of universal rights reflected a Western paradigm that was unfair to non-Western nations. They further argued that the West's history of colonialism and evangelism made them a problematic moral representative for the rest of the world. They proposed three notes for consideration with underlying themes of cultural relativism:
- The individual realizes his personality through his culture, hence respect for individual differences entails a respect for cultural differences.
- Respect for differences between cultures is validated by the scientific fact that no technique of qualitatively evaluating cultures has been discovered.
- Standards and values are relative to the culture from which they derive so that any attempt to formulate postulates that grow out of the beliefs or moral codes of one culture must to that extent detract from the applicability of any Declaration of Human Rights to mankind as a whole.[124]
This stance has gradually been abandoned by most anthropologists, many of whom today see universal human rights as an important way through which discrimination and oppression of cultural minorities can be reduced.[125]
Bangkok Declaration
During the lead-up to the World Conference on Human Rights that was held in 1993, ministers from several Asian states[who?] adopted the Bangkok Declaration, which reaffirms their governments' commitment to the principles of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They stated their belief that human rights are interdependent and indivisible, and stressed the need for universality, objectivity, and non-selectivity of human rights. However, at the same time, they emphasized the principles of sovereignty and non-interference, calling for greater emphasis upon economic, social, and cultural rights, and in particular, the right to economic development by establishing international collaboration directives between the signatories. The Bangkok Declaration is considered to be a landmark expression of Asian values with respect to human rights, which offers an extended critique of human rights universalism.[126][non-primary source needed]
Exclusion of Non-electoral Democratic Systems
Article 21 has been criticized by advocates of sortition, the practice of selecting officials by lottery, as conflating the execution of the people's will with elections. A counterexample to this notion is Athenian democracy, which relied on sortition to select members of the Assembly, the Council of the 500, and the courts.[127] Belgian historian and sortition advocate David Van Reybrouck writes,
- The failure to pay an income support is therefore genocide. England, nonetheless, at the present time has shown its consistent indecision about a regular consistent benefit and also its anxiety about what savings the bus driver could have before he would continue to get his income support benefit as a public employee in furtherance of the European wisdom. This became apparent during the 1980's under Thatcher. She is a very nice lady otherwise but she may have been circumvented by some early school drop outs who became civil servants some how and who wanted to know who is paying attention. They have taken the benefits entitlement of others and given it to themselves. The English life and the desperation that ensued along with the cute desperation survival tactics is not to be tolerated as a nouveau Poll Tax revolt Dickensian revival where you just steal your three daily meals at TESCO, Morrisons or Sainsbury's and go home to the squat to eat. The desperation is not the will of George VI. The issue is that job cancelling technology affects us all and to lose your benefit because you got a job and then lose your job because of job cancelling technology makes the population and uncertain and life in that country for the English uncertain. But, we could maintain our opinions or our attitude on benefits that are contrary to the European expectation and good logic. The result is a cyclical downturns in the economy that shows signs of desperation when we have found "no nonsense", "no argument", "no hesitation" uses of job cancelling technology and this would put the public employee out of work maybe sometimes within 15 months of being hired. Reducing interest rates is not how you respond to these downturns caused by shortened spending of the consumer when he has lost his job. The Federal Bank Chairman could increase the income support for every citizen and see that it is paid by the Fed as an emergency Federal additional stipend for certain increased consumer stimulus. The Federal interest rates should be usually .5 % , 1% or 2% an never lower or higher than that. There is no country for old men at 11%. There is no payment of the loan; no sufficient business for the banks but there is robbery. At 0%, we are not earning anything to cover the cost of the money printed or the coins issued. Did you ever put your.... in a fertile woman and thank God that you achieved the highly likelihood of being the father? You have really done something then. You are not just boxing the wind with raising and lowering interest rates in the inefficacy.
- He was a regular citizen with a benefit just before he was a public employee. After losing his job to new applications of technology, he is now a citizen without a benefit and without salary in London. So, what does he do? He calls Fabian and Darlene in Sussex to be a pretender border services officer and they steal people and their bags at Gatwick. That went on for 40 years and Fabian and Darlene killed at least 30 people. This cannot happen any where in the country again so they have established a National Constabulary supported by the Norwegians in the Schengen protocol to enforce national standards of safety in all customs and border services; not the pirate but a genuine constable or the soul of such a constable at every port and at every passport control desk who works to serve and protect; not ask people what they own or how could they be an author. How many times did I land at Gatwick and I never ran into Clare (The fourth form educated white lady) who was Darlene and Fabian's daughter and who was having sex with Fabian rather often after Darlene starting become sedentary with four young kids and got aged by the Lysol in the toilet. Clare was their first daughter but raised by the neighbors who were Jamaican white. Darlene and Fabian paid them to ensure they have more people. Clare begged Fabian to cover her mistakes at the airport and he would just accuse them of drugs but he was not even a security employee. Neither of them were employees but their son who was hired by Darlene before she was fired in 1987 for refusing some English citizens entry into England only because she was jealous having a bad day, continued on in the job and let Darlene and Fabian muck about but they remained undetected for a very long time in the basement of the airport. The airport is being totally renovated at the present time.
- Darlene was a white South African and Fabian was Nigerian. They made naughty videos together in Nigeria in the 1960's because he said he needed the authority before they go to England. I want to know what people reason like this. Darlene was a white bush woman cloned from a Lucy black bush woman fossil in South Africa but cloned white. We are not safe in a Creole world with this going on as shrouded by a polite "UK Anglo what are you after my brother" accent. So, who is the hegemon in the country if this could deny the Monarch his laws whether or not the Monarch is German?
- The 1% of the economy in terms of sales tax generation is not less than $2 billion per year. 13+% is worth 26 billion per year. Providing an income support to every citizen is not a financial issue or any financial burden. The light bulb really is American technology.
- There is enough to provide the income support at not less than $12.55 per hour and this is feasible.
- That is worth 0.21 cents per minute per human input much like a kilowatt of financial energy per minute per human in Canada or the UK; 24 hours per day, 365 days per year just as we power the machines 24 hours a day with energy. So, we give electric energy to the machines. We also give financial energy to the consumers. This is what we pay to the population as participatory remuneration
- We have taken on the minutia of an atom but we can take on the minutia of time and money for constructive purposes to work a positive end to the economy.
- The more people spend, the more money there is as sales tax that the economy generates.
- As there is more money generated for recycling in the national repository after everyone has the income support of $110,000.00 per year and who knows what you do with it but at least we have finished our compliance with the law as to providing an income support to all. This is instead of the current stand off that is internationally illegal and embarrassing. Whatever you do with the money now, you can still do it or are you trying to rival the unconditional authority of a King? It's like an angry orphan intent on killing us all to make a point in his anger but does not comply with the laws in some stand off. If someone comes and asks him to help them break the laws, he seems to have said he will not stop him but he did stop him this time and the benefits are paid. Yet where ever the wild man has been in this world, the Benefits are missing except in France. Actually they say one month of the benefits was skipped after he visited France in 2022. There is something going on.
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