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1 THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN rights IN THE 21st CENTURYA LIVING DOCUMENT IN A CHANGING WORLDA report by the Global Citizenship Commission CHAIRED BY GORDON BROWNTHE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN rights IN THE 21st CENTURYThe UNIVERSAL DECLARATION of HUMAN rights in the 21st Century: A Living Document in a Changing WorldA report by the Global Citizenship CommissionEdited by Gordon 2016 NYU Global Institute for Advanced work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International license (CC BY ).

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4 In Our Hands (2010) by Charamelody, CC BY-NC , paper used by Open Book Publishers is SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative), PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes) and Forest Stewardship Council(r)(FSC(r) in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia by Lightning Source for Open Book Publishers (Cambridge, UK).ContentsGlossaryixIntroduction by Gordon Brown1 Preface by Paul Boghossian7 Acknowledgments9 Executive Long and Influential Life of the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION of HUMAN of the and protecting the changing enduring relevance of the of Evolving Understanding of of members of specific rights of rights of rights of the disabled, including the profoundly related to sexual rights of of groups as right to national self-determination.)

5 Including regional autonomy and rights of indigenous rights of peoples prejudiced at the national or communal level by climate related to other issues involving vital from state or corporate electronic to the Internet and electronic communication on a global poverty and deep economic safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable open and of Article 29 account of of rights in national or international of the use of and Economic importance of social and economic to availability of for social and economic reduction and other HUMAN for HUMAN special role of entities73a.

6 Sub-national of closed model of of HUMAN of play on representative (Article 4) (Article 5) expression (Article 19) and free association (Article 20) (Article 26) on for strengthening the UN system on HUMAN rights the recommendations of UN HUMAN rights the OHCHR s field HUMAN rights concerns for consideration by the UN Security the UN Security Council veto in the case of mass technology to enhance HUMAN rights and regional legal rights UDHR and HUMAN rights education for UDHR and HUMAN rights education since HUMAN rights transformative HUMAN rights ( HUMAN rights as limits on sovereignty)

7 , denunciations, and other to rights and a Global Ethic105 Appendices109 AThe UNIVERSAL DECLARATION of HUMAN Rights109 BMembers of the Commission117 CMembers of the Philosophers' Committee131 Online AppendicesDHuman rights EducationEHuman rights ImplementationGlossaryCATC onvention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentCEDAWThe Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against WomenCRCC onvention on the rights of the ChildCRPDC onvention on the rights of Persons with DisabilitiesCSOsCivil Society OrganizationsGCCG lobal Citizenship CommissionEFAE ducation for AllGIASG lobal Institute for Advanced StudyHREH uman rights EducationICCPRI nternational Covenant on Civil and Political RightsICERDI nternational Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of

8 Racial DiscriminationICESCRI nternational Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural RightsILOI nternational Labour OrganizationMDGsMillennium Development GoalsOHCHRO ffice of the High Commission for HUMAN RightsOPCATO ptional Protocol to CATx The UNIVERSAL DECLARATION of HUMAN rights in the 21st CenturyThe P5 Permanent Members of the Security CouncilRtoPResponsibility to ProtectSDGsSustainable Development GoalsUNESCOU nited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural OrganizationUNHCRU nited Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesUPRU niversal Periodic ReviewIntroductionby Gordon BrownWhen the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION of HUMAN rights (UDHR) was adopted in 1948,1 the world was a very different place.

9 Years of war had left the better part of two continents in disarray. A geopolitical reordering saw an Iron Curtain fall across a continent and a Cold War rise across the globe. And the world was waking up to the unconscionable horrors of the Holocaust. From the ruins of the Second World War came a call to enshrine fundamental HUMAN rights . Facilitating this moment of global introspection was a Philosophers Committee under the direction of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

10 The Committee enlisted leading thinkers from Mahatma Gandhi to Aldous Huxley to contribute their insights about a proposed UNIVERSAL DECLARATION of HUMAN rights . The work of the Philosophers Committee was then passed to the UN HUMAN rights Commission, chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, a tireless fighter whose supreme and lasting achievement was shaping a HUMAN rights consensus among the then 58 UN Member framers of the DECLARATION envisaged three parts to the postwar HUMAN rights enterprise: a set of general principles, the codification of those principles into law, and a practical means of implementation.