by Allan Norman

Today is the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, arguably still the most important human rights declaration.

Yesterday, I was speaking about rights without remedies, and the Universal Declaration seemed an obvious example - its broad approach to rights, that includes social rights such as housing, employment, food and clothing, rest and leisure, and collective rights including "to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realised", goes well beyond the more limited rights (controversial enough, it seems) for which we have a remedy in our Human Rights Act.

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