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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) [podcast 18 min 36 sec]

On December 10th, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We present here a Librivox reading of the Declaration. For an excellent Web site with details on the history of the Declaration and much more, see: http://www.columbia.edu/ccnmtl/projects/mmt/udhr/index.html. To access other LibriVox recordings, go to: www.librivox.org.
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