70 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is it all fixed?

Dr H V Evatt

Dr Herbert Vere Evatt at the United Nations in 1949. Source: National Archives of Australia

The Declaration, drafted after the Second World War, set out for the first time the basic rights and fundamental freedoms to which all human beings are entitled.



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