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The Failure Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Jacob Dolinger
The Failure Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Jacob Dolinger
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review
The UN Human Rights Commission dedicated over two years to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was approved by the General Assembly in 1948.
The underlying reason for the Declaration was the genocide executed by Hitler’s Nazi Germany against the Jewish people throughout Europe during the Second World War. The fundamental mistake of the Commission was that the persecution by the Nazis was not directed against individual persons, but against an entire people, whereas the Declaration deals exclusively with the rights of the individual human being, no reference whatsoever made in the document to collectivities.
Moreover, …