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38 Int'l L. News 1 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/inrnlwnw38 and id is 1 raw text is: -INTERNATIONAL LAW NEWS WINTER 2009 VOL. 38 NO. 1 SECTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AMERICAN BARASSOCIATION WWW BN ET.O RG/1 NTLAW SPECIAL FOCUS ISSUE: HUMAN RIGHTS BY JEROME J. SHESTACK ,I , 1I(: E Note from the editor: The following remarks were delivered in New York City on November 13-14, 2008, at the 60th anniversary celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ON DECEMBER 10, 2008, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Universal Decla- ration of Human Rights (UDHR), a seminal document in the struggle for human dignity and freedom. For the first time, it brought human rights into the domain of international law as part of a just rule of law. The Universal Declaration has been rightly termed a Bill of Rights for the world. continued on page 8