Credit: UN Photo/Tim McKulka
And with it we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Drafted after the Holocaust and other atrocities of World War II, the text outlines basic human rights for all peoples. That spirit is still sorely needed; the poster to the left is of patients at a hospital in the Sudan, which has been torn by civil war and genocide.
My favourite is article one: 'All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.'
For more on the declaration, see the Wikipedia article.
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