Charles Malik
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Charles Habib Malik was a Lebanese academic, diplomat, philosopher, and politician. He served as the Lebanese representative to the United Nations, the President of the Commission on Human Rights and
Malik in 1958
Charles Malik's statue in the American University of Science and Technology's campus in Beirut, Lebanon.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that codifies some of the rights and freedoms of all human beings. Drafted by a United Nations co
Charles Malik
…and Higher Education and of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigration, as well as being a theologian. He participated in the drafting of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Born in Btourram, Ottoman Vilayet of Beirut (present-day Lebanon), Malik was the son of Dr. Habib Malik and Dr. Zarifa Karam. Malik was the great-nephew…
Eleanor Roosevelt holding the English-language version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in November 1949
The human rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948
Freedom from Fear (Saturday, March 13, 1943)–from the Four Freedoms series by Norman Rockwell. The freedom from fear is mentioned in the preamble of the Declaration.
Former Foreign Office minister Baroness Anelay speaking at the Commemorating Human Rights Day event in London, 8 December 2016