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AS SETE DÉCADAS DE PROJEÇÃO DA DECLARAÇÃO UNIVERSAL DOS DIREITOS HUMANOS (1948-2018) E A NECESSÁRIA PRESERVAÇÃO DE SEU LEGADO | DOI: 10.12818/P.0304-2340.2018v73p97

2018; Issue: 73 Linguagem: Inglês

10.12818/p.0304-2340.2018v73p97

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Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade,

Brazilian Legal Issues

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as adopted in 1948, advanced an integral or holistic conception of all human rights, overcoming the ideological divisions of the world.Along the seven decades so far (2018), it has projected itself in successive and numerous treaties and instruments of protection, at global (United Nations) and regional levels, as well as in the domestic law of the States.The position of the human person as subject of the law of nations was thus rescued.The universality and indivisibility of human rights which found expression in it were reaffirmed at the I World Conference on Human Rights (Teheran, 1968), followed by the II World Conference (Vienna, 1993), which asserted the legitimacy of the preoccupation of the international community as a whole with the conditions of living of the population everywhere.Along these advances, new challenges have emerged, such as the social marginalization and exclusion of growing segments of the population, and