It is a pleasure to welcome you to the CEA’s Paris Global Campus and to the course weblog we'll be using in support of our studies here in Paris, France in Human Rights: Universal Principles in World Politics. This online tool we will use for your Country Blog Reports you will all be publishing across the semester, as spelled out in the course syllabus. It will also serve as a public place of communication, exchange, and information for all matters related to course topics and issues. I invite you to keep in touch with the postings here and to participate in the evolution and development of its content.
The video here on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is an appropriate place to start this endeavor (see 2010 archive.) The UDHR celebrated its 60th anniversary just over two years ago. The Declaration's thirty articles were adopted on December 10, 1948. And this was done not far from where you presently live: here in Paris at the Palais Chaillot just across the river from the Eiffel Tower. There the member-states of the newly created United Nations, gathered as the General Assembly, declared their commitment to the principle of universal human rights as a “common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations”. This was the first step in what has become a 60 year struggle to put theory and principle into real practice. Making respect for human rights a daily reality for people aspiring to a life of simple dignity is the subject of this course.
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