[DrCaleb]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Yeah, it won't open for me.

It's a scan of the original order paper from the UN in 1948.

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

What does that mean here - "ratify"? Why does that become law? Did Canada sign on to recognize it as law?

UN General Assembly resolutions are mostly just 'suggestions' to member countries, except to the UN itself - in which case they are UN law. Once individual countries ratify the Resolution in their own way, it becomes law of that country. The UNCHR and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights became the International Bill of Human Rights in the 1960s, and Canada was involved in drafting both, and I believe has ratified the IBHR in Parliament.

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/drafters.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internatio ... _of_rights

This also applies to things like the Geneva Conventions or the International Laws of the Sea.

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Wasn't Qadaffi the head of the UN Human Rights council at one time?

And . . .?

[N_Fiddledog]

And it's hard to take anything seriously that was once chaired by Moammar Gadhafi.

There's a good link from your Wikipedia page that goes through the entire history of this declaration.

http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publicat ... ev.1en.pdf

No. It is not a law. If it is there are a lot of countries breaking it. Did you see where they abolished the death penalty. Iran signed on, as did Chairman Qadhaffi and Libya.

Check out some of the other things they agreed to in the link. If this is a law, and I could not find where that specific guideline of withdrawing citizenship was a law - is there anybody who is not breaking the general agreements in that covenant.

Even if you could convince me it is an actual law, what good would a law be that nobody, including the chair of the organization responsible for it obeys.

[martin14]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Yeah, it won't open for me.

It's a scan of the original order paper from the UN in 1948.

Oh well that's just fine then.

70 year old papers never need to be updated.

[DrCaleb]

martin14 martin14:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Yeah, it won't open for me.

It's a scan of the original order paper from the UN in 1948.

Oh well that's just fine then.

70 year old papers never need to be updated.

Not really. Human rights are human rights. They don't really change.