On December 10, 1948, a handful of women and men got the most powerful states in the history of the world to publicly admit that human beings are more important than they are and pass the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Improbably, the creators of the gulag and of the atomic bomb lent their support to an international project formally committed to human rights, the end of colonialism, and antiracism. youtube.com/watch?v=yIg061CTxvs
As long as there are states, we must never stop leveraging what they planted in the foundations of the international order to create more space and better lives for humans.