Drafting on the Basis of Dignity: John Peters Humphrey’s Contribution to the UDHR
Despite his idiosyncratic biographical journey, John Peters Humphrey became the first director of the Division of Human Rights at the United Nations and one of Canada’s most distinguished civil servants. Charged with preparing an initial draft of what would become the Universal Declaration of Human...
| Autres titres: | Essays in Honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2023
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The review of faith & international affairs
Année: 2023, Volume: 21, Numéro: 4, Pages: 15-21 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Human Dignity
B Christian morality B Human Rights B John Peters Humphrey B Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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| Résumé: | Despite his idiosyncratic biographical journey, John Peters Humphrey became the first director of the Division of Human Rights at the United Nations and one of Canada’s most distinguished civil servants. Charged with preparing an initial draft of what would become the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), he had a pivotal role in rooting the human rights articulated in the UDHR in the concept of human dignity. Implicitly drawing on his understanding of a Christian morality freed from its “tommyrot,” his largely unrecognized organizing criteria for selecting and articulating the rights included in the initial draft appears to have been “the dignity of man.” |
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| ISSN: | 1931-7743 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: The review of faith & international affairs
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2023.2272428 |