UN General Assembly
1968

139. We have celebrated 1968 as the International Year for Human Rights but the actual condition of human rights in the world gives us no cause for celebration. In too many parts of the world mankind still suffers from the scourge of war, from hunger, and from repression. The Viet-Nam war continues to take its daily toll of the lives of innocent people as well as of the belligerents and brings untold suffering to the living. It is to be hoped that the current moves to end the deadlock in the Paris talks will lead to a settlement acceptable to the parties concerned.