At 06:24 PM 5/27/01 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>Eleanor Roosevelt (United States of America), Ren� Cassin (France), Charles
>Malik (Lebanon), Peng Chun Chang (China), Hernan Santa Cruz (Chile),
>Alexandre Bogomolov/Alexei Pavlov, (Soviet Union), Lord Dukeston/Geoffrey
>Wilson (United Kingdom) William Hodgson (Australia), and John Humphrey
>(Canada).
>
>So according to the UN, there were 11 key contributors. Only *one* was
>American. This certainly isn't evidence that the authors were in favour of
>the death penalty.
I am just saying that the UDHR was strongly influenced by the philosophy of
the United States, in that we were a strong leader in pushing for the
existence of a UDHR in the first place, and then taking a strong lead in
actually writing it.
After all, perhaps you noticed whom the United Nations listed *first* in
that list of contributors.
There is a reason - and it is in recognition of our leadership role on this
issue.
JDG - Who suddenly is not-so surprised that the Netherlands would vote to
boot the United States off of the UNHCHR for the first time in history.
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