Research Paper on:
United Nations' Human Rights Commission

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Human Rights as proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations. Indeed, the words written into the decree have been effective in bringing together nation leaders in order  to address the issues of civil rights, equality before the law, social and cultural rights, educational rights, as well as "a world without cruelty and injustice; a world without hunger  and ignorance; a world of justice and reconciliation" (Fox 32). There is considerably more to a belief than merely its objective; therefore, in order to influence others to take  notice of the importance of something like the ethical significance of human dignity, there must be a strong sense of connection. People are known to follow blindly, no matter  if what they are following is a positive or negative force. In order to instill the sense of human decency -- a trait that one would think human beings  already intrinsically possess -- the Universal Declaration of Human Rights had to be created so that people would know how they are expected to act toward one another. However,  critics have stated that the Declaration, while offering "great promise" (Fox 32) at its conception and even delivering some of what was pledged, has failed quite miserably in recognizing the  ethical significance of human dignity throughout the world, with particular emphasis upon Third World countries. "The opponents of natural rights often complain that the advocates of natural rights are  not logically consistent, because we continually shift between inequivalent definitions of natural law...These complaints by the opponents of natural rights are trivial hair splitting, and pointless legalistic logic chopping" (Natural  Law and Natural Rights). To be sure, many of these objectives have been achieved as a direct result of the Universal Declaration