Human Rights A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. The mobilization which is urgently needed to effect the transition within two or three years from a culture of war to a culture of peace demands co-operation from everyone. Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, who was imprisoned from 1964-1990. We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man s basic rights and freedoms.
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.
When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. USA We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights. For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial of rights. What is needed is a rights-based approach to development.