UN General Assembly
1991

In this new multipolar international world order that is evolving, the concept of the human dimension must be the golden thread that links it up. The human-dimension concept involves aspects that are intrinsically correlated. The first covers the fundamental human rights and freedoms, which have been defined in international conventions. We believe in these human rights, not in the abstract but in their concrete reality, involving, as they should, not only rights of a juridical nature - important and invaluable in themselves - but also social rights: the right to live, the right to shelter, the right to work. The juridical and the social rights are interdependent. The second aspect covers the principle of the rule of law, the principle that protects the individual from the arbitrary exercise of power and from discrimination. The third covers the basic concept of pluralistic democracy, where freedom of assembly and freedom of association can manifest themselves in free and regular elections. Unfortunately, in some countries the principle of "on® man, one vote" has been amended to "one man, one vote, once".