What is the purpose of this passage? Read the passage from Eleanor Roosevelt's speech
on
the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. In this passage, the word states means
"countries."
At a time when there are so many issues on which we
find it difficult to reach a common basis of agreement, it
is a significant fact that 58 states have found such a
large measure of agreement in the complex field of
human rights. This must be taken as testimony of our
common aspiration first voiced in the Charter of the
United Nations to lift men everywhere to a higher
standard of life and to a greater enjoyment of freedom.
to persuade the General Assembly that the Charter
of the United Nations is unnecessary
O to entertain the General Assembly with a story of
Ahow the UDHR came to be
O to inform the General Assembly of what the UDHR
actually includes
O to persuade the General Assembly that the UDHR
has wide support