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P. C. Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights motivation Combining the accessibility of personalThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the world's best known and most translated documents. When it was presented to the United Nations General Assembly in December in 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt, chair of the writing group, called it a new "Magna Carta for all mankind." The passage of time has shown Roosevelt to have been largely correct in her prediction as to the declaration's importance. No other document in the world today can claim a