Featuring essays from 90 Harvard faculty & affiliates

cation of poverty and the protection of human ters and human rights violations and the EU’s can only arise when people come together rights, in particular the rights of the child.” inability to effectively prevent or at least curb from disparate walks of life and articulate the The drafters of the Universal Declaration Article 21 TEU stipulates, among its principles them, on the other. [...] They recognized and revered the “democracy, the rule of law, the universality and fering in the violently disintegrating Yugoslavia The language of human rights today, and the broader expression of humanity and its right to indivisibility of human rights and fundamental of the 1990s. [...] live up to and that our communities live up There’s an overlap between some of the to wherever we have a say in the matter?” As for the Universal Declaration’s establishment In short, the Universal Declaration was an tenets of the UDHR and the syndicated Roosevelt used the UDHR to challenge us to of human rights as an appropriate international important statement of principle. [...] Wendell Miller Associate Professor, Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies, University of Iowa Since the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, anti-colonial activists in the United States and in Civil rights movements have made massive, if often numerous parts of the Global South have appropriated the fragile, gains since the creation of the Universal language of h. [...] and in many parts of And yet, despite the blatant hypocrisy of Europe pose severe threats to the already America’s racist treatment of its Black citizens billions of vulnerable people of color who live after the defeat of Nazi Germany while claiming with the legacies of slavery and colonialism to be the leader of the democratic free world, in rich and poor nations.