NEW YORK – The most important contribution of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly 60 years ago, on December 10, 1948, was to assert a powerful idea: rights are universal. Rights do not depend on membership of a particular community or citizenship in a certain state.
纽约&#45;&#45;联合国大会在六十年前，也就是1948年12月10日通过了世界人权宣言。这一文件最为重要的贡献就是宣告了一个强有力的观点，那就是人权是普世的。人权并不取决于某一特别社区或者某一国家的国籍。人权并不来源于社会契约。