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I'm Human, Right? Seventy years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War, much of the world stood in ruins. Totalitarian regimes had risen up across Europe and around the world, wreaking horror …More
I'm Human, Right?
Seventy years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War, much of the world stood in ruins.
Totalitarian regimes had risen up across Europe and around the world, wreaking horror on their citizens and causing years of war.
Much of what these evil regimes did was technically lawful … according to their own legal codes.
But in 1948, world leaders gathered together and with one voice declared, Never Again.
Never Again could we allow raw government power to go unchecked.
Never Again could we allow the State to trample over the fundamental rights of its citizens.
Never Again could we allow the State to be the final authority on what was right and what was wrong. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was launched. It recognized that the State is not the creator of rights and therefore cannot take them away. These rights are inalienable, and are based on the inherent dignity of all members of the human family. But today, 70 years later, many of the human rights that were …More