/channels/taxonomy/term/7316/all en /channels/channels/news/john-peters-humphrey-archive-added-canada-memory-world-register-353350 <p>To mark the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 10, 1948), Æ»¹ûÒùÔº and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO are pleased to announce the addition of the archives of John Peters Humphrey to the Canada Memory of the World Register.</p> <p>This archive includes the first handwritten draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as typed subsequent versions written by Humphrey (1905-1995), Canadian law professor and human rights advocate. </p> Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:03:22 +0000 webfull 195461 at /channels /channels/news/human-rights-lecture-abdullahi-ahmed-naim-218431 <p><span>Anti-government protestors massacred in Yemen during the Arab Spring; pre-election intimidation in Angola this past August; Shia clerics tried and imprisoned for blasphemy by Sunni-controlled courts in Indonesia in recent years. The list goes on. The problem with defending international human rights through legal means is one of logistics: who does it, when, and how? Currently, it is up to the state to define and implement human rights norms for its citizens. But when it is precisely the officials of the state who are violating these norms, is it not paradoxical to also expect the state to enforce them?</span></p> <div><span><span><span> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:54:21 +0000 webfull 87565 at /channels