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The Declaration of Human Rights is for all

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THIS coming Dec. 10, 2023, is the 75th anniversary of the worldwide publication of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, approved and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly through Resolution 217A at its 3rd session in Paris on Dec. 10, 1948. It was a torn and destroyed world after WW2 that was reeling after the destruction, death, and mass murder of an estimated total of 70 million to 85 million people, men, women and children.

There were only approximately 2.3 billion people globally in 1940, and about 3 percent of them were needlessly killed by the incredible destructive force of the human species. As of 2021, the world's population is 7.888 billion. The bitterness, hatred, anger, violent death and destruction unleashed by the human species 83 years ago made humans the deadliest and most vicious creatures ever to walk the Earth. Humankind is perhaps the most flawed species ever to evolve from prehistory to the present.