The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the modern fountainhead of such freedoms adopted by the United Nations in 1948, guarantees both civil-political and socio-economic rights.
A few quick thoughts about halftime, which began sometime in the Pax Romana, with Madonna being pulled on-field by a legion of gladiators, and ended with a more global and modern declaration of World Peace.
Muslim clerics gathered with clergy of other faiths to offer, in the words of the Declaration, an "urgent and radical reappraisal" of modern society.
The American colonies' Declaration of Independence expresses the classic modern understanding of those ends that governmental functions exist to secure.
In 1968, the Shah opened the first United Nations Conference on Human Rights in Tehran by saying that the Cyrus Cylinder was the precursor to the modern Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Some Iraqi diplomats envision emerging from the meeting with a so-called "Baghdad Declaration," a statement that would define the principles of modern Middle Eastern democracy.
The declaration is one of the great might-have-beens of modern history.
It is a bitter irony that in the month we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the bedrock of our modern freedoms, online journalists have become the single biggest group of writers behind bars.
Gompertz starts, rightly, with that Duchamp moment: that declaration that modern art is about the primancy of ideas, rather than craft skills.
This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: The Modern Age is the Jewish Age--and we are all, to varying degrees, Jews.
