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			== Jacques Maritain ==

			According to numerous sources French philosopher Jacques Maritains contribution to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was crucial see e.g.:
	== Semi-protected edit request on 21 March 2018: § Significance and legal effect, Section "Legal effect", 3rd Sentence: Citations ==

			https://en.wikipedia.org/Jacques_Maritain
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	I needed the proper citations for an assignment. So I looked them up. I would be pleased if someone would '''change § Significance and legal effect, Section "Legal effect", 3rd Sentence:'''

			https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=vlr
	For this reason, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a fundamental constitutive document of the United Nations. In addition, many international lawyers<ref>Humphrey JP, "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Its History, Impact and Juridical Character", in Ramcharan BG (ed), Human Rights: Thirty Years After the Universal Declaration (1979) pp. 2l, 37; Sohn 1, "The Human Rights Law of the Charter" (1977) 12 Texas Int LJ 129, 133; McDougal MS, Lasswell H and Chen I, Human Rights and World Public Order (1980) pp. 273–274, 325–327; D'Amato A, International Law: Process and Prospect( 1986) pp. 123–147.</ref> believe that the Declaration forms part of ]<ref>{{cite web \|last=Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights \|title=Digital record of the UDHR \|url = http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NEWSEVENTS/Pages/DigitalrecordoftheUDHR.aspx \|publisher=United Nations}}</ref> and is a powerful tool in applying diplomatic and moral pressure to governments that violate any of its articles.

			Therefore I think he should be mentioned in this article. What do you think? ] (]) 16:35, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
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	For this reason, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a fundamental constitutive document of the United Nations. In addition, many international lawyers<ref name="Ramcharan1979">{{cite book \| last = John Peters \| first = Humphrey \| author-link = John Peters Humphrey \| chapter = The universal declaration of human rights, Its history, impact andjuridical character \| pages = 37 \| editor-last = Bertrand G. \| editor-first = Ramcharan \| editor-link = Bertrand Ramcharan \|title=Human Rights: Thirty Years After the Universal Declaration : Commemorative Volume on the Occasion of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=favRCKyN-_IC&pg=PA21 \|date=23 May 1979 \| publisher=Nijhoff \|location = The Hage \|isbn=90-247-2145-8}} </ref><ref name="Sohn1977">{{cite journal \|title=The human rights law of the charter \|journal=Texas International Law Journal \|year=1977 \|last=Sohn \|first=Louis B. \|authorlink=Louis B. Sohn \|volume=12 \|pages=133 \|issn=0163-7479 \|url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/tilj12&div=18&id=&page= \|accessdate=2018-03-21 }}</ref><ref name="McDougal1969">{{cite web \|url=http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2575 \|title=Human Rights and World Public Order: A Framework for Policy-Oriented Inquiry \|last=Myres S. \|first=McDougal \|authorlink=Myres S. McDougal \|last2=Lasswell \|first2=Harold D. \|authorlink2=Harold Dwight Lasswell \|last3=Chen \|first3=Lung-chu \|work=Faculty Scholarship Series \|publisher=] \|date=1969 \|accessdate=2018-03-21 \|pages=273–274, 325–327 }}</ref><ref name="DAmato1987">{{cite book\|author=Anthony A. D'Amato\|title=International law: process and prospect\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9CuPAAAAMAAJ\|year=1987\|publisher=Transnational Publishers\|isbn=978-0-941320-35-1 \|pages= 123–147}}</ref> believe that the Declaration forms part of ]<ref>{{cite web \|last=Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights \|title=Digital record of the UDHR \|url = http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NEWSEVENTS/Pages/DigitalrecordoftheUDHR.aspx \|publisher=United Nations}}</ref> and is a powerful tool in applying diplomatic and moral pressure to governments that violate any of its articles. ] (]) 02:32, 21 March 2018 (UTC){{reflist-talk}}
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			<span class="wikied-assignment" style="font-size:85%;">— Assignment last updated by ] (]) 16:17, 15 February 2024 (UTC)</span>
	== UNDR Voting Map ==

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	The Peoples Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) were not the same... the map gives the impression that either communist China did not exist (it did) or that the Republic of China had (filtered) over the mainland (it did not).
			The Canada flag icon for participating nations seems dated/incorrect? ] (]) 14:49, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

			== Map on voting results ==
	I can see from the map that it is not very reflective of the time period in general... I think the whole map could be vastly improved. <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 03:17, 8 September 2018 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

			the map that describes what each country in the UN voted for uses modern borders - for example, the borders of Germany are modern and not divided, Jugoslavia does not exist, and Ukraine is present on the map despite being part of the Soviet Union. Should this be corrected? ] (]) 22:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
	: It looks like somebody took a post-2011 map. There are borders where there shouldn't be (some parts of africa, yugoslavia). ] (]) 07:56, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
	::This map is absolutely awful. It's neither a current map nor a 1948 map. The countries in the Caucasus are already there for some reason, but not those in Central Asia or the Baltics, even though all of them were part of the Soviet Union. How is Yugoslavia divided in six? What's up with Africa? But Czechoslovakia is there though.
	::However, China is not a problem. The vote was on 10 December 1948, and the PRC was only proclaimed on 1 October 1949. So China simply includes both the Mainland and Taiwan at that time. ] (]) 19:34, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

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Jacques Maritain

According to numerous sources French philosopher Jacques Maritains contribution to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was crucial see e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/Jacques_Maritain

https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=vlr

Therefore I think he should be mentioned in this article. What do you think? Phelsume (talk) 16:35, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

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The Canada flag icon for participating nations seems dated/incorrect? SquashEngineer (talk) 14:49, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Map on voting results

the map that describes what each country in the UN voted for uses modern borders - for example, the borders of Germany are modern and not divided, Jugoslavia does not exist, and Ukraine is present on the map despite being part of the Soviet Union. Should this be corrected? Sebimus (talk) 22:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

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