"Two sentiments governed the post-war world: fear and hope. Fear of slipping into an unimaginable, worldwide atomic confrontation even more violent and destructive than the Second World War; and hope that, if the people of world could only acknowledge their common dignity, nations might find a way to perpetuate peace for the foreseeable future. These two feelings dominated the debates that gave birth to both the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In late April 1946, shrouded in the shadow of a horrific world war, nine delegates, selected for their individual expertise, gathered in New York at Hunter College to discuss what action the four-month old United Nations should take to advance "universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms," as set forth in the UN Charter (Art. 55). It was"--
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See also Respect: for non-Muslims Treaty of Carlowitz (1699), 6 Tunbukti, Ahmad Baba al-, 82 Tunisi, Khayr al-Din al-, 105, 198 Tunisia, 92-93, 108, 111 Turkey, 90-91, 109, 115-18. See also Ottoman Empire Turner, Henry I Index.
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