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December 10 was another World Human Rights Day. As known,
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was prepared based
on the principle that "all human beings are born free and equal" was
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accepted on December 10 , 1948 by the United Nations General
Assembly.

The declaration aimed to prevent the repeat of disasters such as
the WWI and WWII, during which millions of innocent people lost their
lives, and to establish a mechanism that would stop authoritarian
leaders determined to attain their political interests and agendas at all
costs. It intended to stop those leaders that might regard any means,
including violence, as acceptable in achieving or pursuing their
inhuman agendas.

However, despite the 67 years that have passed since then, things
seem to have developed in the opposite direction. Many countries of
the world saw peaking human rights' violations, while Middle East

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