What was the basis for and the contents of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of December 1948? Could all nations agree to it?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
The basis for the United Nations resolution called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was American and European history. Religious tolerance emerged from Europe's experience with religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The concept of inalienable rights came from the United States Constitution and the French Revolution. Slavery, women's suffrage, and racial tolerance were concepts the West had been wrestling with for years. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December 1948 included thirty articles; it called for an end to slavery, torture, and exile and demanded freedom of movement and thought, as well as the rights to life, liberty, and security of person. However, being a product of Western ideology, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ignored many of the world's non-Western cultures and religions. For example, did the assertion of total equality mean that traditional Hindu social distinctions were unacceptable?
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