UN General Assembly
1987

As important as economic recovery is, there is another aspect of building a world of progress, justice and peace, namely, the protection of human rights and the rights of peoples. Senegal, Whose Government has placed the individual at the very centre of its policy and its day-to-day preoccupations, continues to be involved in the exalted work of the international promotion of human rights Human rights are an indivisible and interdependent whole. The same importance must be devoted to promoting and protecting all the rights of man - civil and political rights; economic, social and cultural rights; individual rights or collective rights; the rights of the first generation, of the second generation, and even the third.